Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 12:30:10 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.2: Root full, mgetty.config, /var, xpert98 1600x1200 Message-ID: <199906091930.MAA00569@deal1.bogs.org>
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Just did an install of 3.2 with mgetty included. It installs "live", with an "on" status in /etc/ttys, but the mgetty.config file contains many lines of explanatory text without a prepended comment mark--this resulted in around 40 MB of useless logfile in /var/log/mgetty.cuaa1 after an uptime of around 18 hours. When I fixed mgetty.config by commenting out the comments, I found that a much more moderate, but considerable amount of logfile was still being generated until I hung a modem on com1. It seems to me that it should either install "off", or be able to detect the lack of a modem and go away silently, with a single line of log info or (better) a system error message. In either case, the configuration file should be fixed. Also, I seem to remember in an earlier version of the install menus that it asked about /var in some way: I think it either advised you to create a /var filesystem or it asked you if you wanted a slink from /var to /usr/var. Maybe this was a BSD/OS thing. Anyway, something like this would probably be a reasonably useful idea (although if the mgetty.cuaa1 log had been in my /usr partition, I probably wouldn't have noticed anything was wrong until the millenium). I had intended to connect a mouse to com1--I put it on com2 (aka cuaa1) because I couldn't find a cable adapter. I wonder what mgetty would have thought of being connected to a mouse? BTW: so far, I *love* the 3.2 system. Apache works out of the box, X is working pretty well with my xpert98 8MB (but I can't seem to get 1600x1200 working--anyone know about this?), and even StarOffice set up and worked with little difficulty (I think that a FreeBSD specific setup script might help here). It (dist + many pkgs) took 5 days of continuous downloading to ftp over my modem link, but it was worth it. Also, there are *many* commands on the system now that have no manual page that I can find easily. Apropos doesn't find them either. This probably means that I need to set something else up, but what? -Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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