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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!csd.unb.ca!elara.sun.csd.unb.ca!b6ps From: b6ps@elara.sun.csd.unb.ca (Peter Howlett) Subject: Re: [netbsd 0.9] terminal on com ports Message-ID: <1993Oct13.121947.19474@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> Sender: news@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca Organization: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada References: <2956kr$bm5@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 12:19:47 GMT Lines: 24 In article <2956kr$bm5@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>, storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: |> |> -I am not allowed to login as root, even though I have marked |> this as secure. It always refused this: |> Using the "on secure" options in ttys has always worked for me. Cant help here. |> -When I try to launch vi, jove, emacs, or anything else, the |> whole thing blitzes out and I have to reboot the computer |> to get it back. This was a question of mine earlier this month, which some nice people told me was because getty resets the line settings on the com port to cs7 and parenb. (7 data bits and even parity.) This seems to happen no matter what is in the gettytab file. All I did was put an stty in my .login file and everything is cool now. stty cs8 -parenb ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Howlett University of New Brunswick Inet: b6ps@jupiter.csd.unb.ca