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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: getty replacement
Message-ID: <1989Dec31.015909.23878@twwells.com>
Date: 31 Dec 89 01:59:09 GMT
References: <259cff98:549comp.unix.i386@tronsbox.UUCP>
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <259cff98:549comp.unix.i386@tronsbox.UUCP> tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:
: I would LIKE to be able to send some command to them every time the getty is
: respawned after a user logs in so that I can set up some parameters that get
: re-set to default when the user hangs up .. so I need something like
:
:   getty -t60 -sfoo /dev/ttyd1
:
: where the '-sfoo' is the name of a script file of some type.

You mean a script like the one for uucp? Or did you just want to
send some special commands and not worry about how the modem
responds?

If the latter, you can, with my soon to be released getty,
specify an alternate /etc/issue file. If the former, you are
probably out of luck.

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