April 19, 1995 Agetty Release 2.1 New in release 2.0: o Added -a option to support simple-minded autobauding. o Added -e option to run a specified command before the tty is opened. o Added -b option to specify a custom login banner. o Added -c option to specify a custom connection message. o Added -n option to specify a "hostname" for passing to login. o Mods to use termios in Solaris. New in release 2.1: o Added -L options for local or hard-wired operation. o Added -1, -2, -7, -8, -E, -N, and -O options to specify line params. o Added support for 57.6, 76.8, and 115.2 kbps on Digi EtherLite and SCSI Terminal Server modules. Traditionally, getty is the program that listens on terminal and modem ports and that prompts for a login name. Agetty is an alternative for the System V or SunOS 4 environments that sports some useful features: - While the user enters the login name, the program adjusts to parity bits, and to line editing, end-of-line or upper-case only characters. - The baud rate can be established by BREAK character processing and by parsing the CONNECT status messages from Hayes-compatible modems. Other features: RTS/CTS flow control, alternate login program. Last but not least, the program does not use any configuration files. The program runs without modification on SunOS 4.1.3, and Solaris 2.x. There is a good chance that it runs on System V.3 as well. Installation: edit Makefile to taste. Type "make". Type "make install" Agetty was written by Wietse Venema . Enhancements in version 2.0 were made by John DiMarco and Matthew Lee . Further enhancements in version 2.1 were made by by Dennis Cronin . The current maintainer is John DiMarco . The latest version of agetty is available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cdf.toronto.edu in /pub/agetty. Comments, bug reports, fixes, enhancements, etc. are welcome. John -- John DiMarco Office: EA201B Computing Disciplines Facility Systems Manager Phone: 416-978-1928 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-1931 http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/personal/jdd/jdd.html