> Hi, > > Does anyone know how to make the login program in bo disable echo sooner? > The login program from rex was quite a bit faster. Ie when I type in my > user/pass pair I usually do it all at once, during the first boot various > daemons are still swapping around so by the time it's got around to > displaying Password: and disabling echo half the password has been echoed > to the screen!
I've seen that in pre-rex, rex, bo, and currently in unstable too. I don't think it depends on the version of login very much, but more on what you are starting/running in the background (and probably what HD you have, how much memory, etc). I suspect the longin programme disables echo immedeately after it recieves the RETURN (after you type your loging name), but the kernel simply isn't giving the login programme any time-slices. So appart from running the login programme at real-time priority (and thus halting the rest from your system), I don't think there is much you can do. BTW, I suspect the reason you didn't notice it that much in rex must have been that you eighter had installed less packages that start something at boottime, or that you now type faster (or some other reason of that kind). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .