Using two different gettys under Xenix

Norman Kohn nvk at ddsw1.MCS.COM
Fri Apr 13 09:47:16 AEST 1990


In article <8375 at tank.uchicago.edu> goer at sophist.UUCP (Richard Goerwitz) writes:
>In article <1590 at tabbs.UUCP> aris at tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) writes:
>>
>>Is it possible to use two different gettys under SCO Xenix 2.3.2?
>>
>>I'd like to use one of the PD getty's for my modem line and the standard
>>one for the console and terminals.  Since XENIX doesn't use /etc/inittab,
>>how can I do it?
>>
>What you need to do is write a program that sits between init and getty,
>and which reads an inittab file of your own choosing, and then overlays
>itself with whatever getty program that inittab file says it should over-
>lay itself with.

Perhaps I miss something here. The simplest thing ought to be
to write a "getty" that looks around (say, for information
about the environment) and execs the proper getty version.

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