Q122: Where to get "egetty" for FAXSETUP?


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Q.
Where to get "egetty" for FAXSETUP?

A.
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 08:39:49 +0200 (MST)
From: Matthias Apitz <Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de >
Subject: Re: Where to get "egetty" for FAXSETUP

Aaron The Young wrote:
    
    
    >> While I tried to run
    >> "faxsetup",  I got error message as 
    >> cannot seems to find "/bin/egetty"...
    >
    >Actually, I believe you only get a warning.  I think that it is just
    >a hook for future work. Similar to the one for vgetty. You can ignore it.
    
    While this might not be the right thing to do, I just linked them to
    the regular getty and the warnings go away.

I think it's not the right thing to link egetty to a regular
getty and .....

    I don't know if this provides the correct functionality, but everything
    seems to be working for me.

....it's a bad idea to do such links "just for fun";
the program is launched in a priv environment and you've no
information what's going on;

	matthias


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Matthias Apitz / guru@softcon.de ; (07:34:58 AM 01/27/97)