| 1 | From florian@suse.de Mon Feb 26 03:35:43 MET 1996 |
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| 2 | Article: 927 of comp.os.linux.announce |
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| 4 | From: Florian La Roche <florian@suse.de> |
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| 5 | Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce |
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| 6 | Subject: mingetty 0.9 |
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| 7 | Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system |
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| 8 | Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 21:01:51 GMT |
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| 9 | Organization: ? |
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| 10 | Lines: 60 |
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| 11 | Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius) |
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| 22 | I have written a new getty program, that can only be used as console getty |
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| 23 | for Linux. This getty is about half the size from agetty and very well |
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| 24 | suited for a Greased-Weasel(tm)-based System (better known as Linux). :-) |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | As I would use nothing else but mgetty for a modem getty (greetings |
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| 27 | to Gerd Doering from me...), I wanted to have a very minimal getty |
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| 28 | for my virtual consoles under Linux. |
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| 30 | It is called mingetty-0.9 and is currently in the incoming-directory of |
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| 31 | sunsite and should probably be moved to /pub/Linux/source/system/Admin/login |
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| 32 | or /pub/Linux/system/Daemons/init. |
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| 33 | You could also fetch it from susix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/linux/source/system. |
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| 35 | utmp-Handling is from agetty in util-linux 2.5 (probably added by Peter Orbaek |
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| 36 | poe@daimi.aau.dk), and Theodore Tytso has helped a bit about correct tty |
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| 37 | handling. By the way, if someone wants to learn about process groups, |
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| 38 | sessions, controling tty's and other things, I have found a good documentation |
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| 39 | in a recent version of the GNU info pages from the GNU C library. |
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| 40 | Some comments in the kernel are also very helpful and sometimes it is also |
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| 41 | possible to just read the relevant source code. |
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| 43 | S.u.S.E. GmbH in Germany has paid some of the time that was needed to write |
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| 44 | this program. Thanks a lot for their support. (These are no commercial words, |
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| 45 | just a hint, that you could buy Linux CD-ROMs and Linux-support from them...) |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | Example entry for a sysvinit-based system: |
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| 48 | 1:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty [--noclear] tty1 |
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| 50 | Please email me, if you need additional things from a console getty, that |
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| 51 | are currently not supported. I'd add them for you! |
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| 52 | Currently, a man-page is missing and I won't start writing one until |
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| 53 | end of march. So if someone volunteers, I'd be more than thankful. |
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| 55 | Thanks to all of you, |
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| 57 | Florian La Roche |
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| 59 | florian@suse.de |
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| 60 | florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de |
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