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Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload.


Agetty and init packages are updated on
http://users.rcn.com/sokhapkin/release/ according to your feedback:

agetty:
    added "login" to required packages list
    added explanation of cygwin-Windows serial port names mapping to
agetty.README

init:
    fixed symlinks problem in the binary package.

Sergey Okhapkin
Somerset, NJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sergey Okhapkin" <sos@prospect.com.ru>
To: "cygwin-apps" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 5:55 PM
Subject: init and agetty packages available for review/upload.


> I'm going to maintain the cygwin ports of init and agetty packages. You
can
> get the source code and binary packages at
> http://users.rcn.com/sokhapkin/release/. agetty allows to login into
Windows
> NT box via a serial cable connected to a com port.
>
> category: System
> requires: cygwin cygrunsrv
> sdesc: "A System-V Init Clone"
> ldesc: "Init  is the parent of all processes.  Its primary role is
> to create processes from  a  script  stored  in  the  file
> /etc/inittab  (see  inittab(5)).   This  file  usually has
> entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that
> users  can  log in.  It also controls autonomous processes
> required by any particular system."
>
>
> category: System
> requires: cygwin
> sdesc: "An improved getty program"
> ldesc: "Traditionally, getty is the program that listens on terminal and
> modem
> ports and that prompts for a login name.  Agetty is an alternative for
> the System V or SunOS 4 environments that sports some useful features."
>
>
>
> Sergey Okhapkin
> Somerset, NJ
>
>
>
>
>



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