Unix pc questions
Tanya Katz
tanya at adds.newyork.NCR.COM
Tue Jul 18 23:50:13 AEST 1989
In article <869 at umb.umb.edu> John Rouillard writes:
>
> Just a few questions on the unix-pc:
>
> 1) Does anybody have inittab entries for init level 1. Single user
> mode. I don't relly care if the windowing system is running or not.
on v3.51 mine looks like this
:su:1:respawn:/etc/getty window 9600
^
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--- space in col 1
>
> 2) If phtoggle doen't work to start and stop a getty (unix 3.5 sigh)
> on a phone line, is there another way of doing it that will update
> the status line so that people can see that they are not going to
> be getting any calls?
>
The only way I know of is through the call screen... There must be
a better way! If not, you need the 3.51 phone manager...
> 3) I have created /etc/issue and am tyring to get the text in that
> file to show up on the screen with the getty prompt.
> Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to work. Has AT&T hacked
> the upc's getty so that it doesn't read /etc/issue (would be wierd
> since its documented to work). I remember a question like this
> that was posted but I never saw a reply.
The earlier question on the net prompted me to investigate the
/etc/issue question on our 7300 & 3b1 pc's...
Here's what I found:::
You need version 3.51 to run getty with the /etc/issue file
displayed on the screen; or, rather, you need 3.51 getty. I have
both versions, and I, too wondered why /etc/issue wasn't being read
by getty.
My son also complained that his telephone mgr didn't have the cute
little picture of the phone in the ph-mgr's window on the 7300 v3.5,
but more important, phtoggle, wasn't on this machine.
One day I got brave and upgraded the 7300 to 3.51 getty & phone mgr,
now I have the little telephone in the phone mgr's window, phtoggle
works, and the /etc/issue file is displayed!
Sorry to say, this is the only way I found to solve those problems...
Tanya
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