Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-11 Thread eckes
> Now the question is: How do I get login to leave the stop bits alone? /etc/gettydefs is used for this, but debian has no support for it.. hmm.. guess thats a login problem. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],ka.sub.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote: > > Ok! We are narrowing the field. > > The above command locks up the terminal big time, but... > > stty cs7 cstopb > > fixes it! > > Now the question is: How do I get login to leave the stop bits alone? > I

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > This yields nothing. There is no BUGS file in and subs of > /usr/lib/terminfo.? I'm only assuming there is because of your weird error. I got the same error when I manually created a file called BUGS. > /usr/lib/termifo or /etc/terminfo? These are concid

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote: > >From bash or whatever shell, you can try saying > stty cs8 cstopb Ok! We are narrowing the field. The above command locks up the terminal big time, but... stty cs7 cstopb fixes it! Now the question is: How do I get login to leave the stop bits al

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Here's the 'ls -a /usr/lib/terminfo' Ooops, how dull of me :-) > > Why did you send me that? The BUGS file is probably in one of those > subdirs. Since I don't want an ls -R /usr/lib/terminfo in my mbox, > I'l

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Steve Preston
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > still have problems. > Pressing return on the terminal causes getty to put up the login message > an

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote: > One explanation that would fit this behavior is that your terminal is > configured to expect more stop bits than the linux box is sending. > > When you are typing and the linux box is echoing, there are long > pauses (relative to a single bit time) betwe

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Steve Preston
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote: >> One explanation that would fit this behavior is that your terminal >> is configured to expect more stop bits than the linux box is >> sending. > This is a very nice idea, except that it ignores the fact

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Here's the 'ls -a /usr/lib/terminfo' Why did you send me that? The BUGS file is probably in one of those subdirs. Since I don't want an ls -R /usr/lib/terminfo in my mbox, I'll reveal the magic incantation 'find /usr/lib/terminfo -name BUGS'. > I looke

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I installed ncurses-term-1.9.9e-1.deb but when I do the toe above I get: > > > > infocmp: can't open terminfo file BUGS. > > toe is Table Of Entries. It just lists all the available terminfo > entries with a de

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I installed ncurses-term-1.9.9e-1.deb but when I do the toe above I get: > > infocmp: can't open terminfo file BUGS. toe is Table Of Entries. It just lists all the available terminfo entries with a description. If you ran it with no options and it gave

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > > still have problems. > > Install ncurses-term, and use one o

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Eric Hoeltzel
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > still have problems. > Pressing return on the terminal causes getty to put up the login message > and prom

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > still have problems. Install ncurses-term, and use one of these terminal types. $ toe | grep -i 'data gene

login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I still have problems. Pressing return on the terminal causes getty to put up the login message and prompt, just as it should. After entering a user name (ge