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- I have written a new getty program, that can only be used as console getty
- for Linux. This getty is about half the size from agetty and very well
- suited for a Greased-Weasel(tm)-based System (better known as Linux). :-)
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- As I would use nothing else but mgetty for a modem getty (greetings
- to Gerd Doering from me...), I wanted to have a very minimal getty
- for my virtual consoles under Linux.
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- It is called mingetty-0.9 and is currently in the incoming-directory of
- sunsite and should probably be moved to /pub/Linux/source/system/Admin/login
- or /pub/Linux/system/Daemons/init.
- You could also fetch it from susix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/linux/source/system.
-
- utmp-Handling is from agetty in util-linux 2.5 (probably added by Peter Orbaek
- poe@daimi.aau.dk), and Theodore Tytso has helped a bit about correct tty
- handling. By the way, if someone wants to learn about process groups,
- sessions, controling tty's and other things, I have found a good documentation
- in a recent version of the GNU info pages from the GNU C library.
- Some comments in the kernel are also very helpful and sometimes it is also
- possible to just read the relevant source code.
-
- S.u.S.E. GmbH in Germany has paid some of the time that was needed to write
- this program. Thanks a lot for their support. (These are no commercial words,
- just a hint, that you could buy Linux CD-ROMs and Linux-support from them...)
-
- Example entry for a sysvinit-based system:
- 1:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty [--noclear] tty1
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- Please email me, if you need additional things from a console getty, that
- are currently not supported. I'd add them for you!
- Currently, a man-page is missing and I won't start writing one until
- end of march. So if someone volunteers, I'd be more than thankful.
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- Thanks to all of you,
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- Florian La Roche
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- florian@suse.de
- florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de
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