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From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
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Subject: arbitrary programs in /etc/ttys
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Hello, 

I'm trying to turn an old pc into a serial console.  I can perfectly get
a login on the other end of the line with "cu -l cuaa0", but I would
like to have this command started automatically at boot, so the users
don't need to be educated about cu :-).  So I put the following in
/etc/ttys: 

ttyv0	"/usr/bin/cu -l cuaa0"		vt100  on  secure

But this gives me the following error when restarting init: 

init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv0, sleeping 30 secs

Apparently cu can not be started directly from /etc/ttys, can it?  How
else should I accomplish this?  

GH

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