Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1784 mails)

[tduggan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tim Duggan)]

Message-ID: <200012130842470494.19E3F7C5@exchange1>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:42:47 -0500
From: "Tim Duggan" <tduggan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] Quiet



Hi,
On 12/13/00 at 9:47 AM Cliff Sarginson wrote:
>> I know that 'login:' is echo'ed by init. I am not sure about the
'hostname'
>> part. But it makes sense if that would be to come from init as
well.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Koos Pol
>
>Well, not quite. The initial login prompt comes from (ma..)getty and
then
>from login, not directly from init. The question is whether the
presence
>of the hostname in the prompt is a configurable parameter or not.
>Anyone else know ?
>
>Cliff

I have not found a way to get mingetty (SuSE default?) to display the
login without the hostname. In mingetty(8) the only options are
--noclear and --long-hostmane so it would seem that the source would
have to be modified to allow a --nohostname (or similiar). It is
easier to use another getty but keep in mind that mingetty is smaller
than most (if not all) of the others. IIRC, agetty and mgetty can be
set so only login: shows up.

Later,
Tim