terminal on RS6000

[zdenko tomasic]

We are running 3.1 AIX on model 530 and cannot get terminal to work
on s1 serial port. The smit entries seem to be correctly set (enable,
9600 bps, 8 bits, 1 stop etc.). Getty is running, yet there is no
login prompt and /etc/security/users and /etc/security/login.cfg
look reasonable. The most I got was echo of the stuff typed at the
terminal, but no action. When I tried to echo "hello" >/dev/tty0
as root, nothing came to terminal and command never returned.
At the interupt (^C), there was message(from ksh or /bin/echo)
that /dev/tty0 could not be created.
The /dev/tty0 is alredy there and I tried to delete it and recreate
it through smit.  The behavior did not change.  Am I missing
something or is it a well known problem with 3.1 drivers?
tnx.
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Zdenko Tomasic, Rice U., Chem. Dept., P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Tx 77251
INTERNET: zdenko at katzo.rice.edu
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