In article <199810030913.CAA07581@cue.bc.ca>,
John Nemeth  <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca> wrote:
> } Adding the pp=/usr/sbin/pppd capability to the default entry 
> } in /etc/gettytab means that you can run getty instead of pppd on the serial 
> 
>      I didn't recall seeing this, so I double checked and this feature
> isn't in the NetBSD 1.3.2 getty.  I just checked the -current getty
> and it's not there either.  This feature is in modemd, but that uses
> /etc/modemcap, not /etc/gettytab.  It would be neat if the NetBSD
> getty supported this feature, but it doesn't at the moment.

I applied the changes from FreeBSD (via OpenBSD) to support this today.
Have fun :)

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