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HOW TO: Enable Getty in Red Hat EL or CentOS 7

 HOW TO:  Enable Getty in Red Hat EL or CentOS 7

 


The following example uses ttyj04.
 
Created a custom file called: "/lib/systemd/system/serial-getty-digi@.service" by copying the serial-getty@.service file:

cp /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@.service /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty-digi@.service

Set the fixed baud rate (in this example 9600) on the "ExecStart" line and added the –L flag (hard-wired terminal).  We commented out the Type line, although we don't know if it is necessary:
 

 

#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.

[Unit]
Description=Serial Getty on %I
Documentation=man:agetty(8) man:systemd-getty-generator(8)
Documentation=http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html
BindsTo=dev-%i.device
After=dev-%i.device systemd-user-sessions.service plymouth-quit-wait.service
After=rc-local.service

# If additional gettys are spawned during boot then we should make
# sure that this is synchronized before getty.target, even though
# getty.target didn't actually pull it in.
Before=getty.target
IgnoreOnIsolate=yes


          [Service]
          ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -L %I 9600
          #Type=idle
          Restart=always
          RestartSec=0
          UtmpIdentifier=%I
          TTYPath=/dev/%I
          TTYReset=yes
          TTYVHangup=yes
          KillMode=process
          IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
          SendSIGHUP=yes
 

[Install]
WantedBy=getty.target


We gave the file executable permissions (not sure if this is required):
 
# chmod a+x serial-getty-digi@.service
 

Use systemctl to create the symbolic link and startup the login service via agetty on device: "/dev/ttyj04". Linux systemd will start this automatically during subsequent system boot up: 
 
# systemctl enable serial-getty-digi@ttyj04.service
systemctl start serial-getty-digi@ttyj04.service
 
Check the status:
 
# systemctl status serial-getty-digi@ttyj04.service -l
 
In our case, we had to reboot the server to get this working reliably, however this may not be neccessary.

To stop the agetty process:

# systemctl stop serial-getty-digi@ttyj04.service

To disable the service and remove the symbolic link:

# systemctl disable serial-getty-digi@ttyj04.service

Last updated: Jun 17, 2019

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