🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1ac7q9INNb3s@gap.caltech.edu>
madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>I found out how I killed my system: as suggested in section 9 of the
>NextAdmin documentation, I added the option "-PowerOffDisabled true",
>as shown in the example, to the console line of /etc/ttys.  Then
>loginwindow simply hangs.  I took it out, and now it works again.
>Instead, I have it now in root's default database, and that seems to
>work.  (I.e. "dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled true".)
 
In setting loginwindow options via /etc/ttys, I once found that adding
any option--not just PowerOff Disabled--hosed the loginwindow.
 
On closer inspection, it looks like only around 128 characters can be
passed to loginwidow via /etc/ttys!  Whatever gets truncated will
appear to be an offending option.  So dwrite's are necessary as a
work-around.
 
:  Greg Johnson, Senior Scientific Programmer/Analyst -- Campus Computing
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