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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: getty(8) don't show `login:' prompt
To: davidg@root.com
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:45:48 -0700 (MST)
Cc: grog@lemis.de, candy@fct.kgc.co.jp, questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199607101132.EAA03432@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jul 10, 96 04:32:24 am
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> >No, that looks pretty good to me.  In my getty (heavily modified), I
> >have:
> >
> >  if (slowmodem)
> >    {
> >    sleep (slowmodem);					    /* give modem a chance to wake up */
> >    tcflush (i, TCIFLUSH);				    /* and throw out any junk */
> >    }
> >
> >>From the man page:
> >
> >-S [delay] causes getty to delay <delay> seconds after connection has
> >           been established.  This is for use with modems which are
> >           not ready to communicate with the remote site as soon as
> >           they are connected.  <delay> may be omitted and defaults to
> >           2.
> 
>    I'd prefer to see this implemented as an option in FreeBSD (default to no
> extra delay if the option is not specified)...like Greg suggests above.

I believe it defaults to 2 if a specific delay is omitted, and the -S
option is used.

I would prefer to see it implemented as, for instance, :md#2:, in
/etc/gettytab instead of as a command line option at all.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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