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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: help sought - securing a terminal/line
Message-ID: <3845@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 7 Aug 90 18:18:28 GMT
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>>   tty01   "/usr/local/lib"    vt100   on modem      # Start LIB software
>
>This solution won't work.  I think you need to have a front end "getty"
>to wait until a connection is made, and then exec the appropriate
>program.

Or you can make the application in question do what "getty" does - after
all, if that solution wouldn't work for *any* program, you'd have to
have a front end "getty" to wait for the connection and then run
"getty", "getty" being a program....