On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, David Bushong wrote:

> time), you just edit /etc/ttys.. fine.  But, if you stop using dumb
> terminal (quit ZTerm), then you get complaints from getty about "retries"
> ad infinitum... any ideas?

Poking around the manual pages (getty, gettytab), here's a possibility.

Try setting a non-zero timeout for the lines under gettytab if it's not
set that way already.  If it is, try setting it to zero.
The additional text in the entry would be a colon followed by to=x, where
x is the number of seconds for timeout at the login prompt.  Try 10 or 15.

as such....

2|std.9600|9600-baud:\
	:dp#9600:to=15:

assuming that ttys is set to 9600.  Otherwise, stick it in the appropriate
line.

Let me know if that works.

Later,

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