Minicom with BusyBox

Adam Lackorzynski adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:47:22 +0100


Hi,

On Sun Feb 29, 2004 at 21:45:51 -0600, Brent Baude wrote:
> I've been trying to build a small embedded OS that includes minicom for 
> serial console operations (yeah, client on the device as well).  When I 
> try and run minicom (as root) on the client, I get "You don't exist. Go 
> away." everytime.  I have tried with minicom 2 and 2.1, as well as 
> different vesions of busybox.  I suspect that when I ran configure it's 
> assuming extra function not available on the embedded OS.  Is there a 
> configure or make option I am missing or some sort of missing function? 
>  Whoami and id return proper uid numbers and names.

That is something like getpwuid(0) gives you NULL on busybox?
(Sorry, I'm too busy to try myself.)



Adam
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