🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DE0tvJ.n16@world.std.com> jbciii@world.std.com (Joel B Couch) writes:
> I offered to do a setup that would allow someone
> to dial into an Amiga and perform a task. I thought
> that getty or one of its variants would allow a
> simple login. It does, but it insists on appending
> "-DEVICE [...]" and a ton of stuff as command line
> arguments to the command that is executed. Is there
> a way to suppress this extra command line material?

No. You could, of course, change getty, but then you'd
break some other programs (like UUCICO).

> The assembler getty program offers an option that
> will pipe the STDIO from whatever program it
> launches to the serial port. This would be great,
> but I've never gotten that feature of it to work.
> Not even the test provided in his passwd file.If
> I can't getty agetty to do this for me is there
> another way to get the I/O hooked up to the SER:
> after a login?

Uhhh....both getty's allow that. You simply specify the
program name starting with a '*'. That _is_ a way to
suppress the -DEVICE -UNIT and -GETTY parameters.

> Email responses prefered. Thanks.

Set "Followup-To: poster" when you want that.
--
  //   Michael B. Smith
\X/    mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us