manes@marob.MASA.COM (Steve Manes) (12/14/88)
I just installed 2.3 and except for a bad N2 update disk and the update
program's insistence upon overwriting the 2.3 link library with the old 2.2
files, it works fine.
I like the new HDB and plan to use it instead of the patched-to-death BNU
I used in 2.2, but problem:
The new 2.3 getty seems to be bound very closely to the 2.3 BNU, especially
the Devices, Dialers and Systems files. I ran into problems trying to use
my own baud-sensing getty with 2.3 BNU. Actually, the problem is that
I can't get 2.3 getty to deal with a 7-bit dialin. I've tried virtually
every gettydefs combination I can think of but I can't get getty to strip
those highbits on input. This is a mega-bummer because the system has a LOT
of BBS traffic, especially calling from PC Pursuit where folks are at 7/E.
The impression is that the system has frozen on them at the "login:" prompt,
which it effectively has unless they switch to 8/N.
Anyone had any success with this in 2.3?
--
Steve Manes Roxy Recorders, Inc. Magpie-HQ BBS
UUCP : {rutgers|cmcl2}!hombre!magpie!manes (212)420-0527
Smail: manes@MASA.COMusenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (12/15/88)
No real solution to this other than having the user type ctrl-j after their account name. After that all preceeds well. Anyone with a better solution? I've tried playing with the gettydefs file without any sucess. ==larry --------------------------- LARRY SHIELDS UUCP: ...!frith!lunapark!larry P.O. Box 6159 BIX: lshields E. Lansing, MI 48826 Compuserve: 70277, 3677 BBS: lunapark 1200 7-1-E / 2400 8-1-N 24hrs (517) 487-3356 login: bbs
sandy@turnkey.TCC.COM (Sanford 'Sandy' Zelkovitz) (12/16/88)
In article <417@marob.MASA.COM>, manes@marob.MASA.COM (Steve Manes) writes: > > The new 2.3 getty seems to be bound very closely to the 2.3 BNU, especially > the Devices, Dialers and Systems files. I ran into problems trying to use > my own baud-sensing getty with 2.3 BNU. Actually, the problem is that > I can't get 2.3 getty to deal with a 7-bit dialin. I've tried virtually > every gettydefs combination I can think of but I can't get getty to strip > those highbits on input. This is a mega-bummer because the system has a LOT > of BBS traffic, especially calling from PC Pursuit where folks are at 7/E. > The impression is that the system has frozen on them at the "login:" prompt, > which it effectively has unless they switch to 8/N. > > Anyone had any success with this in 2.3? > -- > Steve Manes Roxy Recorders, Inc. Magpie-HQ BBS Steve, Basically what I did was to copy the old 2.2 ungetty into /usr/lib/uucp as ungetty.old and modified my getty code to call /usr/lib/uucp/ungetty.old. I found that I could not use the 2.3.1 ungetty because of incompatibility <even though the manual says it is compatible!>. In my inittab entry for the port(s), I just told it to use my auto-baud sensing getty, as usual. Once this was all accomplished, I was back up as usual...... Sandy -- Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz XBBS 714-898-8634 UUCP: ....att!hermix!alphacm!sandy ....trwrb!ucla-an!alphacm!sandy ....uunet!turnkey!alphacm!sandy ....ucbvax!ucivax!icnvax!alphacm!sandy DATA: 714-898-8634 VOICE: 714-894-7898
manes@marob.MASA.COM (Steve Manes) (12/17/88)
From article <1317@cps3xx.UUCP>, by usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner): > No real solution to this other than having the user type ctrl-j > after their account name. After that all preceeds well. Anyone > with a better solution? I've tried playing with the gettydefs > file without any sucess. I notified SCO of the problem and they've placed the bug report on escalated-something. Getty is ignoring all initial flag settings except SANE, RTSFLOW and CTSFLOW and apparently setting the terminal to 8/N + ISTRIP internally, which is exactly what I want. However it's not mapping CR to LF, as you noted. With all the nice stuff in the new getty, especially its reading Devices/Dialers for modem reset codes, it's strange that SCO didn't also enable /etc/issue. For that matter, it would also be nice if getty could be updated to the baud-querying/sensing technology of your average 1982 DOS BBS. A CR at some baud rates doesn't generate the parity error getty needs to cycle gettydefs and a modem BREAK is arcana to most non-Unix folks. -- Steve Manes Roxy Recorders, Inc. Magpie-HQ BBS UUCP : {rutgers|cmcl2}!hombre!magpie!manes (212)420-0527 Smail: manes@MASA.COM