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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!NewsWatcher!user From: admin@net1.intermac.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: getty and mgetty Date: 24 Aug 1996 06:27:10 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: <admin-2408960232080001@206.65.200.5> References: <admin-1708962124300001@206.65.200.5> <4vhv0g$f0@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.65.200.5 X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.8 In article <4vhv0g$f0@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > Why not get init to initiate some other program instead of getty ? In > /etc/ttys: > > ttyd0 "/usr/bin/telnet othermachine #" unknown off I tried that. I got no prompt. Nothing. In any case, thanks to Joerg Wunsch, I, duh, read the manpage for gettytab and got getty to call my shell script that telnetted to the other machine. Dave