From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 26 11:51:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04578 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 26 May 1997 11:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA04570 for ; Mon, 26 May 1997 11:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA13460; Mon, 26 May 1997 20:50:59 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA26365; Mon, 26 May 1997 20:25:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970526202508.IU36462@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 20:25:08 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/ttys is broken References: <19970526155955.BO13767@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705261505.BAA00648@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705261505.BAA00648@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on May 27, 1997 01:05:36 +1000 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Nugent wrote: > The "dialup" term type is a "magic" value. This is the compromise I > worked out which causes isdialupttp() to do its stuff, just like > "network" is the default for ptys Errm, sorry, i've missed this detail. > Another option would be to change the /etc/ttys to use the new > keyword which designates the dialup ttys explicitly as "dialup" and > use vt100. This sounds like a cleaner solution to me. -- 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. ;-)