On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:44:29 Amish Mehta wrote:
That's cool! How do you do that? Btw your reasoning is valid, but that website gave no reason/explanation for doing that.
Amish.
Tahir Hashmi wrote: There are
many setups where the ttys are all connected to the server externally. We have such a setup in AMU. So, it's quite possible that tty1 (say) is located in the SysAd's chamber. Get the point? Also
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I never did that! The Computer Centre of my University had a Unix Lab with that kind of a set-up and I never got around to know how it was done coz our SysAd was somewhat unapproachable :p
Anyway, if you give me some time I'll try to get this info from them. Aah! those VT100s - guys who worked in there were a respected lot! That's where I got hooked on to Linux.
That makes me think of getting the word of PRC to AMU too. There's an Aligarh Linux Users' Group out there which was quite active till I left around the same time last year. I hope they're more active now.
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