Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:08:07 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/12767: Expand /etc/ttys manpage Message-ID: <99Jul23.114939est.40354@border.alcanet.com.au>
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>Number: 12767
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Expand /etc/ttys manpage
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 22 19:10:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Peter Jeremy
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Alcatel Australia Limited
>Environment:
cvs-cur 5500
>Description:
There are shortcomings in ttys(5) when compared to the way
/etc/ttys is parsed by /sbin/init. The following patch
describes the way /sbin/init behaves. I believe this
description is more appropriate here since init(8) refers
to ttys(5), and any other program wanting to parse /etc/ttys
should do so in the same manner as init.
>How-To-Repeat:
Code inspection.
>Fix:
Index: libexec/getty/ttys.5
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/CVSROOT/./src/libexec/getty/ttys.5,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 ttys.5
--- ttys.5 1997/11/21 07:43:53 1.9
+++ ttys.5 1999/07/23 01:56:37
@@ -125,6 +125,14 @@
"none".
For backwards compatibility, the ``group='' should appear last on the
line, immediately before the optional comment.
+.Pp
+Both the second field and any command specified with ``window=''
+will be split into words and executed using
+.Xr execve 2 .
+Words are separated by tabs and/or spaces.
+Arguments comprised of more than one word should be enclosed in single
+quotes ("'").
+Note that no shell-style globbing or other variable substitution occurs.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal
# root login on console at 1200 baud
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