Re: changing login tiff --- where is it in 3.0 ?

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From: Art Isbell
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 01:23

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In article <1992Sep8.205020.11252@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:
>What surprises me is that noone uses the /etc/ttys file.  No need to dwrite to  
>the defaults database (which gets hosed every so often...)
>
># console       "/usr/etc/getty std.9600"       NeXT            on secure
>#console        "/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow -HostName localhost -ImageFile  
>/usr/lib/NextStep/cougarlogin.tiff -PowerOffDisabled true"        NeXT             
>on secure window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty  
>std.9600"
>#
>console "/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow -HostName localhost -LoginHook  
>/LocalApps/MOTD -LogoutHook /usr/local/bin/LogoutHook -ImageFile  
>/General/system/cougarlogin.tiff"        NeXT            on secure  

Some of us have editted /etc/ttys as you have done, but the above mess is a
little difficult to decipher (which console entries are commented out, which
white space is tabs and which, spaces, are both quotes in correct places, are
the options correctly spelled, etc., etc.?)

Maybe I'm just a clutz, but I quit using this approach when I miseditted
/etc/ttys for a client just before I left his premises, didn't reboot to test
it (dumb), and the next time rebooting was required, a blank screen resulted
when loginwindow failed due to an error I'd made in /etc/ttys.  My client
wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what the problem was before calling
NeXT support (he couldn't reach me) who solved the problem.  I was really
embarrassed (and still am).

So I prefer the defaults database/NetInfo approach.
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
Email: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                                Voice: (408)335-1154
USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515

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Subject: Re: changing login tiff --- where is it in 3.0 ?
Date: 9 Sep 1992 01:23:57 GMT
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