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From: weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: autoexecution of a program by tty
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.193619.3099@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 19:36:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.143204.27014@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1991Apr3.135455.3191@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr08.130553.16073@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <1991Apr08.130553.16073@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, ebrill@ddsw1.MCS.COM
(Edward Brill) writes:
|> I was kinda hoping that it could assume that any connects on xty00 thru
|> xty3f are BBS connections, and that the user wouldn't even have to face
|> a login: prompt.  I am getting the feeling that this is basically
|> impossible.

That depends on who much trouble you want to go through...
Two things that might work:

1) modify the code for getty(8) to call the BBS instead of login(1)
   and change /etc/ttytab to call the modified version for the BBS ports.

2) write your own program to open and initialize the tty line and run
   the BBS, then change /etc/ttytab to use this for the BBS ports.

NOTE: I think some versions use an inittab file or some such thing in
      place of the ttytab file.

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )