On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Vebjoern Forsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > /etc/inittab: > > 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login root </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1 > > Login does have a built-in 60-second timeout at the "password:" prompt, > and might have a timeout at the "login:" prompt too, I don't remember.
The above line puts you right at the password: prompt, so the 60 second password timeout is the cause of the problem. > If you run a more normal getty/login on this terminal, you won't have the > problem. If you insist on doing it this way, you might have to hack the > source code if you can't find a solution in the login man page. I've changed this back to a "normal" entry, but the above is what was installed by the bootdisks available sometime around the beginning of August when I installed Debian on a server. Sysvinit 2.64-1 has a normal looking inittab. Anyway, there was a comment too: # This is the only special line - the rest is straight from the normal inittab. 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login root </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1 > > Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. > /tmp should probably be a symbolic link to var/tmp . I too thought about doing it this way, but I'm a bit unsure about what happens if the partition /var/tmp resides on can't be mounted? (Are there any important programs that depend upon /tmp?) Vebby
