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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: How to add a delay before getty displays login prompt ?
To: ATuretta@stylo.it (Angelo Turetta)
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 00:15:32 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <c=IT%a=_%p=stylo%l=STYLOSERVER960510012839EC006400@servernt.stylo.it> from Angelo Turetta at "May 10, 96 01:28:38 am"
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Angelo Turetta writes:
> 
[...]
> I suspect that getty is displaying the prompt string a little too early for
> the Sportster, and often the modem is still in the phase where any character
> from the host aborts the connection.
> Reading 'man gettytab' I've not found any parameter to instert a delay
> between the DCD and the first write.
> 

I haven't tried this but

    :im=\0:pf#5:

omits the initial banner and delays 5 seconds before issuing the
login: prompt.

Or add sleep(5); above this piece of code in getty/main.c, around
line 226.

	if (IM && *IM)
		putf(IM);


John Capo                                                   jc@irbs.com
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