Default mgetty behavior (to mgetty's maintainer)

["Eloy A. Paris" <eparis@ven.ra.rockwell.com>]

Hi,

just I quick comment about the default behavior of mgetty:

the file /etc/mgetty/login.config has support for AutoPPP (for easy
Windows 95 dial-up access through Dial-up Networking) out of the
box. In this file this line is present:

/AutoPPP/ -    a_ppp   /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login debug kdebug 7

Well, I would suggest that the "debug" and "kdebug 7" options are removed
from the default /etc/mgetty/login.config file since this options
generate VERY VERY verbose output. My log files grew from a couple of
hundred KBytes to several MBytes in minutes.

I know it is a very easy fix to remove these options but the new user
will find this to be a problem.

Regards,

E.-

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Eloy A. Paris
Information Technology Department
Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323


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