
	Setting up fixed tty names under SOLARIS 7 (2.7)

This procedure provides fixed tty names under SOLARIS 7 (2.7)

It requires a modified version of IOLAND and some minor modifications to
system configuration.

The procedure is as follows:

	1) Choose pairs of system devices.

	   Choose pairs of pseudotty master and slave devices.

	   These devices are normally named tty* and pty*.
	   They come in pairs.  For example ttyp1 is the slave device
	   corresponding to ptyp1.

	   Start your selection with the device pair having the highest
	   minor device number.

	   For example, we choose ptypf and ttypf. (Our system has 16 pairs).
	(These can be renamed to, for example, ptyB3 and ttyB3).

	3) Modify /etc/inittab to start gettys on the chosen devices.

	   Here is the line for our example:

x1:234:respawn:/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -p "`uname -n` login: " -d /dev/ttyB3 -l 9
600

	   Be sure to use the new IOLAND which supports the -F (fixed tty
	   flag).  The -F flag requires the name of the master device 
	   followed by the slave device as the last two parameters.  This
	   is instead of the link name.

	     Entry in /etc/ioland.cf:

		-a -F <iolan_name> <port_number> ptyB3 ttyB3

	     Entry in /etc/rc3.d/S17ioland

		/etc/ioland  (this starts ioland in Run Level 3)

	4) Set up your IOLAN.

	   Set the desired port to remote access.

       	   Kick off the getty and ioland processes with the command
	   'kill -1 1'.  This forces the init process to reread the
	   inittab file (or init q).


