Re: looking for testers of new console

[David Walter]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:08:04AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>> Then you should add the terminals to ttys, so you get a login session
>> on them at boot time.  Edit the file /etc/ttys, and add the following
>> lines (or similar if you made more/less ttys):

>> tty6    "/libexec/getty 38400"          hurd            on      secure 
>> trusted console
>
> Note: You should not remove the existing entry.  At least not if you want to
> be able to login locally :)

I have added a run-daemon program that takes its arguments as a
program to run and wait on, if the program dies it restarts it and
waits again.

Here is a problem that I don't know how to address:

I can do  the redirect to  one of the consoles, but  what is the right
way to disable the exec of the getty on that terminal _and_ to get the 
console program to read the console device?

I have  tried setting  it  to be the  console  device, using  the term
translator  to point to it  as a device, with  path /dev/vcs/9. I have
added an entry to /etc/ttys.

      settrans -fgc /dev/vt9 /hurd/term /dev/vt9 device /dev/vcs/9/console
               #this isn't recognized by the console client.

I have also tried using:

      settrans -fgc /dev/vt9 /hurd/term /dev/vt9 hurdio /dev/vcs/9/console
               #this gives a getty and is recognized by the client.

Both of the have been done with matching entries in /etc/ttys.


> Later, when the console client is started in the boot scripts, the console
> entry should be removed (in fact, if you feel adventurous, you could try
> that out for us and report back).

I have commented out 

#console        "/libexec/getty 9600"   mach-color on secure trusted console

I can get the  output to redirect to this   device, but it also  has a
getty running on it.

Can  I get  the getty   to stop and   get the  console  device to   be
recognized by the console client?


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