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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Bashar <big@kuwaitnet.net>
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Subject: Re: init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/console: No such
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On Fri, 2005-Jul-01 08:23:52 +0300, Bashar wrote:
>i noticed one of my boxes had the message "init: can't exec getty 'none' 
>for port /dev/console: No such file or directory" into messages and 
>repeating forever.

You should have the following line in /etc/ttys:
console none                            unknown off secure

The only change you can validly make to this line is to change 'secure'
to 'insecure' but I suspect you've changed 'off' to 'on'.

Try turning the console back off and sending a SIGHUP to init.
-- 
Peter Jeremy