faxgetty/aix/inittab?

[Lothar Krauß <Lothar_Krauss@compuserve.com>]

> Would some kind soul enlighten me as to why the entry in the inittab
> that fires up faxgetty keeps being overwritten on reboot with an entry
> that calls getty.  This is on a ThinkPad850 running AIX4.1.5 and
> hylaFAX-4.0pl0.

you have to disable login in 'smit tty' and you should not name your new entry
'ttynn'. Otherwise AIX will read the ODM database at boot time and modify this
entry in /etc/inittab

Lothar Krauss
WBS Blank Software GmbH
Lothar_Krauss@compuserve.com