Re: [PLUG] dialin server for linux?

["Sean R. Cummins" <beaner@Op.Net>]

> 1) I think pretty much any version of getty (plain getty, mingetty,
> agetty), although I'm not familiar w/ them all, I think they should all
> have a -l option to let you change the login program.

I tried to use agetty, but that was core dumping, so now I'm back to
getty.  It appears that my version of getty (RH6.0) does not have the -l
option, but it does allow you to replace the default /bin/login with
whatever command you want to enter (LOGIN=whatever in /etc/conf.getty).
BUT, getty is the program that is prompting for the username, not
/bin/login.  So, what I've done so far is:

replace the login command with my own script which contains:

#!/bin/bash
rlogin -l username host

that way, the end user (a vending machine, in case you were wondering),
sees the login prompt from the terminal server, and the password prompt
from the Solaris box that is being rlogged into.

So all of this seems like it will work in theory, the only problem I'm
having now is getting the modems to properly talk to each other.. which
has been pretty difficult because I don't have the specs on the modems in
the vending machines.  And when I try replacing the init string on the
modem in the Linux terminal server, by adding an INIT=ATblahblah command
to /etc/conf.getty, getty continuously respawns all by itself.  I'm
guessing its just crashing or something..

But anyway, Darxus & Lord_Dark, thank you very much for your help.. its
definitely been pointing me in the right direction..


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Sean R. Cummins                             e-Vend.net Corporation
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