getty replacement

[Marcin Jessa]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:20:10 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2005-07-05 11:52, Marcin Jessa <lists at yazzy.org> wrote:
> > Hi guys.
> >
> > Is there any way to replace "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"  with a custom
> > application and what would be requirements for such an app?
> > Running
> > ttyv0 "/some/app/shell_code.sh Pc" cons23 on secure
> > gives me:
> > init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv0, sleeping 30 secs
> > and my code is not executed.
> 
> Your shell script exits immediately, which leads init to believe
> something caused it to exit prematurely.  Shell scripts that don't
> exit, but continue working until they are explicitly terminated with
> a signal should work fine.

That unfortunatelly does not seem to work.
I tried a shell script with a read -p "Blah blah"  my_choice 
which should wait for an execution but this did not work either giving me exactly the same message...