Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com (Vincent Archer) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Init.c speed setting patches Message-ID: <27611@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 16 Aug 90 09:24:17 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 26 Will Rose says: > [stuff about getty] > Judging by the questions, /etc/ttys is one of > the more obscure files for beginners, and a few comments in it might help. I agree with you, ttys is the strangest and most obscure configuration file, yet the most important. The recently posted man.4 somewhat explains how to alter it, but that's neither simple nor straightforward for the novice user. Better yet: discard /etc/ttys in favor to a /etc/inittab! My patched (but not yet de-bugged) tools/init.c uses /etc/inittab if there's one to be found, then falls back to /etc/ttys. That way, the INIT process can replace the master(1) server, and several different commands can be run on various ttys rather than only login/getty (for example hangup, my program that reinitialises the modem at the end of the RS232, then wait for a ring indication, connect the modem and THEN execs itself to getty; pretty useful for a BBS). If all bugs regarding utmp/wtmp disappear, then I'll post patches to init next week (or the week after). Vincent Vincent Archer | Email:archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com "People that are good at finding excuses are never good at anything else"