From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 16 11:25:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7ED37B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:25:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2GJPdK95646; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:25:38 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Craig Burgess , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getty on console (was RE: Syslog reports weird things) Message-ID: <20010316112538.B93551@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15025.23622.509745.469218@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15025.33021.208534.712006@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15025.33021.208534.712006@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:57:01PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:57:01PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > 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? Well.... coming from Solaris and NetBSD/Sparc, if you install via graphics console, then switch to serial console, everything still works just fine. The only way to get that is to turn ttyd0 on always. But the potential security risks make that a no-no. I have not seen a problem with the getty active on the console on any of my Alphas. But from discussions with msmith and bde, I know some of the reasons why people feel it is wrong. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message