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Article #57Re: getty & agetty
From: Brett Wuth
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:07
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:07
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Joel B Couch (jbciii@world.std.com) wrote: : 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? : jbciii@world.std.com Joel Bostwick Couch III There are command line options to remove most of that stuff (see the manual page man:getty). But often you don't want to remove them because they will be needed by other programs that getty might run (like uucico). In those cases, it's easier to have getty run a shell or AREXX script that ignores the undesired arguments and runs the final executable. Cheers, -- Brett Wuth wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca bwuth@cuug.ab.ca wuth@castrov.UUCP Box 1251-U, Pincher Creek, Alberta T0K 1W0, CANADA Tel:+1 403 627-2460 pgp-public-keys@io.com has mine; Print=E4F8EDEECBE01AD2FA3D8B2D94B1A292 What is the meaning of life?! Yes.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mtroyal.ab.ca!ender!castrov!wuth Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.uucp Subject: Re: getty & agetty Message-ID: <wuth.78td@castrov.cuc.ab.ca> From: wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca (Brett Wuth) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 11:07:46 MDT References: <DE0tvJ.n16@world.std.com> Organization: Castrovalva is a state of mind X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL3]