Re: [MiNT] vcons

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 06:20:34PM +0100, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> 
> > Can anybody who is familiar with the sources tell me, where is the
> > "MiNT 1.12 hostname (ttyv?)"
> > message we get on the virtual consoles generated from?
> > 
> > Does it come from vcons or login or getty?  It would be nice to upgrade
> > whatever is doing this to instead fetch the MiNT version and report it;
> > that hard-coded 1.12 looks a bit dumb... *grin*
> 
> It's in /etc/gettytab . I just change the version number in that file
> myself, but I guess it's no problem to replace the version number with
> `uname -r` (mind the reversed quotes). Then it would be automatically
> correct.

Probably not, /etc/gettytab is not a shell script, it's a config file,
isn't it?

But it should be possible to change the source to accept the backticks.

Ciao

Guido
-- 
http://stud.uni-sb.de/~gufl0000
mailto:gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de