arbitrary programs in /etc/ttys [BETTER SOLUTION]
Geert Hendrickx
geert.hendrickx at ua.ac.be
Sat Nov 6 17:25:26 PST 2004
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:52:58PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to turn an old pc into a serial console. I can perfectly get
> a login on the other end of the line with "cu -l cuaa0", but I would
> like to have this command started automatically at boot, so the users
> don't need to be educated about cu :-). So I put the following in
> /etc/ttys:
>
> ttyv0 "/usr/bin/cu -l cuaa0" vt100 on secure
>
> But this gives me the following error when restarting init:
>
> init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv0, sleeping 30 secs
>
> Apparently cu can not be started directly from /etc/ttys, can it? How
> else should I accomplish this?
>
> GH
I'm starting cu from /etc/rc.local now. It does the job, and now users
can't even accidentally hit Ctrl-Alt-Fx and be stuck at another virtual
terminal.
GH
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