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Running a serial login terminal under systemd

TL;DR: $ sudo systemctl edit serial-getty@ttyUSB0 [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o '-p -- \\u' 115200 %I $TERM StandardInput=null StandardOutput=journal TTYPath= TTYReset=no TTYVHangup=no From the other node: $ tio /dev/ttyUSB0 I have a MINI PC  in the comm area which hosts a few useful services at home. I got tired of how unstable the Raspberry Pi is, so replaced it with something that is almost as power efficient, but runs orders of magnitude faster. With support for both an SSD and an NVMe I can have software RAID for extra reliability. The problem is that the onboard network (something based on RTL8111) insists on running at 100M and keeps flapping up and down. Got tired of troubleshooting it so got a USB network adapter  which runs at 1G and is much more stable. Recently I noticed that the link would die, and as I have no way of getting into the machine easily to troubleshoot, I decided to give it a serial console. Got a male USB to serial converter , and a