From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 15 18:57:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B958837B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:57:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA21694; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:57:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f2G2v1Y78042; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:57:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15025.33021.208534.712006@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:57:01 -0500 (EST) To: "Craig Burgess" Cc: , ": Kees Jan Koster" , Subject: getty on console (was RE: Syslog reports weird things) In-Reply-To: References: <15025.23622.509745.469218@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Craig Burgess writes: > I never looked here before.... The following is snipped from virgin > /etc/getty: You mean /etc/ttys.. <...> > What will (should) happen when they are turned 'off' ? > > craig See the ttys (5) man page. Basically, the daemon is not run. So, one might ask: "Why was getty enabled on console in the first place?" Serial consoles are (at least percentage wise) much more common on alphas than on i386. Getty was enabled by default on console a year ago to prevent a POLA violation for people who installed onto an alpha via a serial console & then couldn't login via the serial console because the default setting is off for the serial port. Since having a getty run on "console" seems to be causing problems, I think the best solution would be to turn it off & to teach sysinstall to notice you're using a serial console & enable ttyd0 for you. Opinions? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message