lost characters in /etc/issue

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:45:34 +0200


Hi,

the standard tip is: use the very latest Cyclades drivers.  Don't compile
Linux 2.0 kernels with egcs, use gcc 2.7.2.1.

gert

Jon Sellers wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>     I have seen this problem mentioned on deja news but have not seen
> any solutions (and perhaps none exist). I am using mgetty vs 1.0.0 on a
> Pentium 60 running RedHat 5.1 with a Cyclades 8Yo card. I have the
> latest Cyclades driver and US Robotics Sportster 33.6 Faxmodems.
> 
>     The problem is only half of my /etc/issue file shows up to the
> dial-in user. I assume it is some kind of buffer problem on one end or
> the other but the modem manual doesn't mention anything. Unfortunately
> the /etc/issue file is where I am telling these users how to login to
> this new machine so they won't call me!
> 
>     Does anyone have any ideas on where I might look to resolve this
> problem? By the way, the archive list search engine keeps giving me the
> error "The search parameters caused an error in the call to Glimpse"
> regardless of my search parameters.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> Jon Sellers
> 
> 
> 
> 


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