From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 26 8: 5: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAAFB37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D84243E6E for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:05:06 -0700 (PDT) (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 LAA14503; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:04:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g8QF4Tt00191; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:04:29 -0400 (EDT) (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: <15763.8701.497010.29864@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:04:29 -0400 (EDT) To: Mark Murray Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ttys patch - any objections? In-Reply-To: <200209260922.g8Q9MGRP068717@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <200209260922.g8Q9MGRP068717@grimreaper.grondar.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Murray writes: > Hi > > The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD > box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12). > > Any objections to my committing this? I object. Most of my machines are headless without video cards and use a serial console. With devfs this means that /dev/ttyv[1-N] do not exist and getty bitches like this: Sep 26 11:00:11 monet getty[543]: open /dev/ttyv1: No such file or directory Its an incredible pain in the ass to get spammed by these things on a 9600 baud serial console while you're editing ttys to turn the damned things off. I don't want to have to have 4 more lines of spam to deal with when installing a new server. If you also fix getty to silently ignore the problem and go to sleep forever, then I withdraw my objection. Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message