From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 5 01:19:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA26658 for current-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 01:19:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA26646 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 01:19:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA01527 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 10:19:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id KAA09893; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 10:04:45 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 10:04:45 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getty/mgetty References: <1.5.4.16.19970204171928.0a17e8ea@mail1.internode.net> <19970205181711.CI15151@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 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: <19970205181711.CI15151@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on Feb 5, 1997 18:17:11 +1100 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Nugent wrote: > > getty would be fine if it did the PPP drop though thing. Is > > there a simpler way of doing all this without having to munch > > around with mgetty? > > I believe so since our getty should do it already. I haven't yet > tested it, but will be doing so in the next couple of days, but > many folks maintain that it works. At least, there's a submission in a PR for this. I'm listed as the person being responsible, but never could decide to actually put it in. Now that you're bloat^H^H^H^H^Hmaintaining getty anyway :), feel free to take it over: j@uriah 533% query-pr -t getty -s open -r joerg >Number: 1019 >Category: bin >Synopsis: getty cannot detect ppp logins >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: joerg >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator: David Muir Sharnoff >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 12 02:00:02 PST 1996 -- 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. ;-)