From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 06:57:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92C316A4DB for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:57:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.u4eatech.com (blackhole.u4eatech.com [195.188.241.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C783343D3F for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard.williamson@u4eatech.com) Received: (from filter@localhost) by mail.u4eatech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i2VEvZh31318 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:57:35 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: mail.u4eatech.com: filter set sender to richard.williamson@u4eatech.com using -f Received: from apus.u4eatech.com (unknown [172.30.20.100]) by mail.u4eatech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192B61577D4 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:57:21 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <6.0.3.0.2.20040331155443.02428590@cygnus> X-Sender: richard@cygnus X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.3.0 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:59:46 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Richard P. Williamson" In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.2.20040331150551.024c45a8@cygnus> References: <405FD7BD.8060004@smxy.org> <20040330171038.GA92336@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <6.0.3.0.2.20040331150551.024c45a8@cygnus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: How to auto-login on boot up X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:57:38 -0000 At 15:26 31/03/2004, Richard P. Williamson wrote: >At 18:10 30/03/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>See ttys(5), getty(8), gettytab(5). Basically you setup a terminal >>type via /etc/gettytab -- copy the 'Pc' entry and append the >>'al=username' property -- which causes that terminal to autologin as > >I'm trying to set this up also, can you check this for sanity? > >gettytab: > bootupcli:\ > :ht:np:sp#9600:al=admin:tc=std.9600 > >ttys: > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty bootupcli" cons25w on insecure > >user 'admin' uses tcsh, his .cshrc is simply: > exec /cli/cli Ok, I've checked the above and they are sane. The problem is that I'm still either getting all or nothing. I either get all the console messages dumping all over the /cli/cli command line interface, or I get no com at all. How can I redirect the console output, away from /dev/ttyd0? regards, rip