Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mailing lists" <> | Date | Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:01:45 +0200 | Subject | Re: Unicode console patch |
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In message <199901311903.OAA01504@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Albert D. Cahalan writes:
>>> Please don't extend TIOCLINUX. It was a bad mistake to begin with, >>> and furthermore, we're trying to move away from ioctl()s (ioctl()s >>> were used because most changes affected *all* consoles. Per-console >>> changes should be done with escape codes.)
>There must be a reasonable way for getty to reset the console to a state >defined by the admin. That includes fonts, translation tables and keymaps. >Secure login is important.
Just add to the begining of /etc/issue \033c - console reset.
SY, Stanislav Voronyi.
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