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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: getty and mgetty Date: 18 Aug 1996 07:51:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4v6i2l$8v@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <admin-1708962124300001@206.65.200.5> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E admin@net1.intermac.com wrote: > 1. Can getty be made to initiate some other program instead of > /usr/bin/login? The reason why I want to do this is because I > would like the getty program to automatically open a binary > telnet connection to another machine (where the accounts are) > everytime someone rings the modem. You can use a new tag in /etc/gettytab for this port, and override the `lo' capability in it. > 2. I know it can be done with mgetty but I hate mgetty. It's a pain > in the ass to set up and the documentation is barely readable. I > get as far as a CONNECT 19200 but no prompt. That's surprising. I'm all but a mgetty lover, but i haven't had too much trouble to setup it in the cases where i needed it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)