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From: tim@sabus.UUCP (Tim Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Reproducible modem bug in 3005 and 2006
Summary: Can't just ignore ODM..
Message-ID: <146@sabus.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 17:25:24 GMT
References: <19388@rpp386.cactus.org> <285CDF31.4D3C@tct.com> <285FC8C4.1CAF@tct.com>
Organization: The SABUS Group
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In article <285FC8C4.1CAF@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> According to pa@curly.appmag.com:
> >In article <285CDF31.4D3C@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> >>...I plan to post source code for my uugetty as soon as I get
> >>permission from higher-ups.
> >
> >How do you circumvent the ODM?
> 
> Ignore it.  :-)
> 
> Seriously: manually edit /etc/inittab to say "/etc/uugetty" instead of
> "/etc/getty" for the given ports.  The pshare/pdisable/etc. commands
> still work, ignoring the difference in pathname.
> -- 
> Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.com>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>


Everytime you reboot, AIX will replace uugetty with getty.  I would
simply remove getty, (it is a link to tsm and login anyway) and rename
uugetty to /etc/getty.