On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 14:17 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > So if we switch to mingetty in [email protected] 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 ;-) -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ The barefoot programmer
