I have a Prolific PL-2302 USB to serial adapter and I want to use it on RHEL 6.1 to work with my network equipment. All of the equipment is standard Juniper and Cisco gear so it's all 9600/8-N-1. Whenever I try to attach agetty to the tty agetty appears to start but after about a half minute it seems to stop without ever actually letting me use the new console.
The command I'm running is
agetty 9600 /dev/ttyUSB0
I suspect the command I'm running is wrong. I would prefer to use something like agetty, setserial, or stty than to use minicom or other tools of that sort so I can do shell magic.
