Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: login prompt not staying set Message-ID: <6385@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 87 00:01:04 GMT References: <142700001@occrsh.ATT.COM> <2932@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <16848@topaz.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 17 As quoted from <16848@topaz.rutgers.edu> by ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie): +--------------- | No, it would be far better if getty didn't attempt to pretend | it was login at all. However, it likes to do so so it can do | things like autobauding and trying to guess what you want for | terminal modes. +--------------- So why can't getty print "Press RETURN" until it gets a recognizeable RETURN with a 1 second gap around it, then exec login with no arguments? This could be implemented now by changing only getty source (see uutty for one such PD source); "login" will work right without arguments. Then change "login" to look for a prompt in a control file of some kind. -- Brandon S. Allbery necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu {hoptoad,harvard!necntc,cbosgd,sun!mandrill!hal,uunet!hnsurg3}!ncoast!allbery Moderator of comp.sources.misc