Minicom with BusyBox

[Brent Baude]

Probably, any work arounds in terms of configuring?



Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
> 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