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[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty

+ Liam R E Quin + liam at holoweb.net +
+ Thu Mar 8 16:38:55 CET 2012 +

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On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 14:17 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> So if we switch to mingetty in getty at .service we'll be sacrificing
+> serial console support.
+
+Web hosting companies sometimes provide access to a serial console.
+
+
+> PS I'm aware of some "strange" behaviour on the current gettys. When on
+> a getty you can use the cursor keys and move the cursor around. Keys
+> such as backspace don't seem to work if you mistype your username or
+> password
+
+In "Mageia Release 1" (and Mandriva) backspace does work, but cursor
+keys will just insert esc [ A or whatever, with the ESC printed as ^[.
+
+BSD systems did this from 4.1 or maybe earlier (1980 or so), except it
+was DEL rather than BS to erase a character.  Version 7 Unix had # and @
+as erase character and back-to-start-of-word, not the DEC-style del and
+^u.
+
+But maybe that's going back further than you meant ;-)
+
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