loginwindow option

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2 total messages Started by Mark Adler Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:50

#1633

Author: Mark Adler
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:50

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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".)

Mark Adler
madler@cco.caltech.edu

Re: loginwindow option

#1677

Author: Greg Johnson
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 17:12

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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
:  233 Heinkel Building, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65203
:  ccgreg@mizzou1.missouri.edu / ccgreg@monad.missouri.edu / 314-882-2000

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