Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rit!cci632!ccicpg!turnkey!sandy From: sandy@turnkey.TCC.COM (Sanford 'Sandy' Zelkovitz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Xenix 2.3 getty Summary: Try this.... Message-ID: <4172@turnkey.TCC.COM> Date: 16 Dec 88 09:12:27 GMT References: <4106@turnkey.TCC.COM> <417@marob.MASA.COM> Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Costa Mesa, Ca. Lines: 33 In article <417@marob.MASA.COM>, manes@marob.MASA.COM (Steve Manes) writes: > > The new 2.3 getty seems to be bound very closely to the 2.3 BNU, especially > the Devices, Dialers and Systems files. I ran into problems trying to use > my own baud-sensing getty with 2.3 BNU. Actually, the problem is that > I can't get 2.3 getty to deal with a 7-bit dialin. I've tried virtually > every gettydefs combination I can think of but I can't get getty to strip > those highbits on input. This is a mega-bummer because the system has a LOT > of BBS traffic, especially calling from PC Pursuit where folks are at 7/E. > The impression is that the system has frozen on them at the "login:" prompt, > which it effectively has unless they switch to 8/N. > > Anyone had any success with this in 2.3? > -- > Steve Manes Roxy Recorders, Inc. Magpie-HQ BBS Steve, Basically what I did was to copy the old 2.2 ungetty into /usr/lib/uucp as ungetty.old and modified my getty code to call /usr/lib/uucp/ungetty.old. I found that I could not use the 2.3.1 ungetty because of incompatibility . In my inittab entry for the port(s), I just told it to use my auto-baud sensing getty, as usual. Once this was all accomplished, I was back up as usual...... Sandy -- Sanford Zelkovitz XBBS 714-898-8634 UUCP: ....att!hermix!alphacm!sandy ....trwrb!ucla-an!alphacm!sandy ....uunet!turnkey!alphacm!sandy ....ucbvax!ucivax!icnvax!alphacm!sandy DATA: 714-898-8634 VOICE: 714-894-7898