From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 14:09:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14044 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14029 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA25156; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:05:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:05:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199607102105.PAA25156@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Terry Lambert Cc: grog@lemis.de, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getty(8) don't show `login:' prompt In-Reply-To: <199607102045.NAA27157@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199607101132.EAA03432@root.com> <199607102045.NAA27157@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >No, that looks pretty good to me. In my getty (heavily modified), I ^^^^^^^^ > > >have: > > >>From the man page: > > > > > >-S [delay] causes getty to 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. 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. Huh? What are you smoking Terry? The getty that Greg's talking about is his local version which hasn't seen the light of day in FreeBSD. How do you know all about it since you haven't seen it or the source code for it? Nate