Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:37:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jc@irbs.com (John Capo) Cc: ATuretta@stylo.it, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to add a delay before getty displays login prompt ? Message-ID: <199605101337.IAA02239@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199605100415.AAA19162@irbs.irbs.com> from "John Capo" at May 10, 96 00:15:32 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); I got a little exasperated at this; I did a much more general hack and put in a "bx=" capability that kicks off an arbitrary binary after setting modes but before printing the banner. (bx = banner executable). I've used this with beta versions of Motorola ISDN firmware which exhibit a similar (and reportedly intentional, for debugging purposes) behaviour. Works like a charm. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968help
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