Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 16:50:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: chrisl@bbs.justcompute.com Subject: Re: Serial Communication Message-ID: <199606251650.QAA12613@CoDe.CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960622132717.238G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Jun 22, 96 01:33:22 pm
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> > On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, Chris Lavin wrote: > > > NO what I am trying to do is to use my bsd box as a com server. I want to > > have people dial in to the BSD machine then get automatically get telneted > > to a remote site. I don't want them to ever see the login prompt. Can you > > offer any assistance? > > Hm. You'll have to hack getty to call telnet instead of login. I > wouldn't know how to do this. /etc/gettytab, if I remember well, the lo variable > You could make an account like "bbs" with no password that as it's first > action in .profile telnets to the desired location. The next line will > be "exit". It would be cheaper to exec telnet. After it, you don't need an explicit exit, and you can save one process. -- Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky
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