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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Pause presenting login: Prompt? Date: 16 Nov 1995 06:13:03 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <48ekpf$b97@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <dhawkDHy6zz.4JD@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <dhawkDHy6zz.4JD@netcom.com>, dhawk@netcom.com says... > >I have a system on the net, FreeBSD 2.0.5, and when I connect it >it's pretty quick with displaying the name of the system, but >pauses before putting 'login:' out there. I've got users whose >login scripts are timing out waiting for 'login:' -- is there >some way I can make it show up faster? Usually, I find pressing Enter makes the login: prompt appear right away. This appears to be an issue with telnet negotiation, so only affects telnet, and only telnet from certain kinds of clients. This doesn't occur in 2.1-snap though. Tom