rogers@dadla.UUCP (Roger Southwick) (11/20/84)
<What you gonna call? DEBUGGER!> Now that the silliness is over with, I have just completed a nifty little program which has simplified our operations by a bit. It's whole purpose in life is to change the modes on tty lines to be 0666 when they are made non-loginable. Why someone would want that? A very good question. We use these non-loginable lines for downloading and the like, and never know who (whom?) is going to use them, hence the need to allow anyone to read and write these lines. Also, we have a tendency to move these lines from port to port, adding or subtracting as needed. We have been doing this operation by hand, but we often forget to change the mode of the tty after turning it off in /etc/ttys. Anyway, we incorporate the call of this program with our shell script which forces init to re-read /etc/ttys, and our operators don't have to worry about it. (Just why we have a shell script to do a "kill -N 1" is because we have 2 different values for N over 4 machines). If there is any interest in such a beastie, I will be happy to mail it to you. If I get more than 3 or 4 requests, I'll post it in net.sources for you all to enjoy. -Roger UUCP: HOST!tektronix!dadla!rogers Where HOST is any one of: masscomp,decvax,allegra,uf-cgrl,mit-eddie,mit-ems, uoregon,psu-cs,orstcs,zehntel,ucbcad,ucbvax,purdue, uw-beaver,reed,ogcvax,ihnp4,tekred,minn-ua,cbosg CSnet: rogers%dadla@tektronix ARPAnet: rogers%dadla%tektronix@csnet-relay