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From: hh@venture.net (Henning Holtschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: waiting for \r before login
Date: 9 Jul 1995 21:04:18 GMT
Organization: private Linux site in Dortmund (Germany)
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Hello,
we have switched from Linux, where the getty program waits for \r before
printing the login banner and login prompt on serial ports to BSDI, which
prints the login prompt right after the connetion has been established.
We have some clients on dialin modem ports who use chat scripts which send
\r and then wait for the login prompt. That does not work with our BSDI
system any more. Is there a way to force BSDI to wait for \r before printing
the login banner or any trick that does the same?
The problem is that the customers' chat scripts send \r and do not wait long
enough after that so that the login name is not send to the login prompt but
"into" the login banner. That confuses the client software and lets the chat
script fail. Unfortunately, we cannot change our clients' login scripts.
Thanks in advace
<-gninneH<-
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