From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 15 18:43:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D602737B71C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:43:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig-burgess@home.net) Received: from tiger ([24.0.178.21]) by femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010316024349.PFDR15887.femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tiger>; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:43:49 -0800 From: "Craig Burgess" To: "Andrew Gallatin" Cc: , ": Kees Jan Koster" , Subject: RE: Syslog reports weird things Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:44:22 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <15025.23622.509745.469218@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew Gallatin Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:20 PM To: Craig Burgess Cc: lecn1306@ele.etsmtl.ca; : Kees Jan Koster; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Syslog reports weird things Craig Burgess writes: > I am running no mods to console. I am attaching the kernel configuration > file and dmesg in case they help. I suspect that **something** changed > between 4.1.1 and 4.2 which is when I discovered the problem here. I have > been running the same hardware since version 3. I'd send my system to you > for testing purposes but would it be enough help if you had root access? > It's the next best thing to sending the machine. > About the only commonality that I see that your machines have and that mine lacks is the xl nic, but I really doubt that's the problem. Hmm.. What do your /etc/ttys files look like? Specifically, what are the settings for the console, vtyv0 and ttyd0 lines. Eg, I have: console none unknown off secure ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure What happens if you flip off the getty on your "console" device? Does this help? (reboot or kill -HUP 1 for it to take effect) Drew I never looked here before.... The following is snipped from virgin /etc/getty: <--------- start --------------> # If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for the root password # when going to single-user mode. # console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure .... ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure <---------- pause -------------> I have no ttyv0 and presume that ttyv8 is either a default or left from attempts to install XFree86. <---------- resume ------------> # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure <---------- pause -------------> There are several (way more than 3) pseudo terminals: <---------- resume ------------> # Pseudo terminals ttyp0 none network <----------- end --------------> What will (should) happen when they are turned 'off' ? craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message