[H-GEN] Using a linux box as a terminal

[Jay]

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On Wed, 21 May 2003 13:26, David Jericho wrote:
> I'm not quite sure of the reason behind your actual choice of command.
> Personally I would have just used the line

There is a sco server running a warehouse application that requires wyse60 
terminals. Used ones are hard to get by and new ones are way to expensive.

However, older, simpler pc's are available in abundance. That's why.

> 1:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/ssh scoserver
>
> I'd also be wary of having runlevel 1 listed, because most
> distributions have no started network in runlevel 1.

1: in this case stands for the first available console i.e. ALT+F1.

I ended up doing a 1:3:respawn:/usr/local/bin/wy60 -c ssh scoserver which 
appears to run ok.

> The other thing to note, is that the above ssh will be run with the
> username of root. If you want to force another username, or a
> prompting for the username use either

Thanks for pointing this out.

Cheers

Johannes

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