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From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Using two different gettys under Xenix
Message-ID: <1990Apr12.234716.6766@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 23:47:16 GMT
References: <1590@tabbs.UUCP> <8375@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Mundelein, IL
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In article <8375@tank.uchicago.edu> goer@sophist.UUCP (Richard Goerwitz) writes:
>In article <1590@tabbs.UUCP> aris@tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) writes:
>>
>>Is it possible to use two different gettys under SCO Xenix 2.3.2?
>>
>>I'd like to use one of the PD getty's for my modem line and the standard
>>one for the console and terminals.  Since XENIX doesn't use /etc/inittab,
>>how can I do it?
>>
>What you need to do is write a program that sits between init and getty,
>and which reads an inittab file of your own choosing, and then overlays
>itself with whatever getty program that inittab file says it should over-
>lay itself with.

Perhaps I miss something here. The simplest thing ought to be
to write a "getty" that looks around (say, for information
about the environment) and execs the proper getty version.

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