From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 18:31:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.iprg.nokia.com (mailhost.iprg.nokia.com [205.226.5.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C83E37B43C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:31:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennisw@iprg.nokia.com) Received: from darkstar.iprg.nokia.com (darkstar.iprg.nokia.com [205.226.5.69]) by mailhost.iprg.nokia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3-GLGS) with ESMTP id SAA12998 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:31:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Delivered-For: Received: (from root@localhost) by darkstar.iprg.nokia.com (8.11.0/8.11.0-DARKSTAR) id f3J1V8H16119 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:31:08 -0700 X-mProtect: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:31:08 -0700 Nokia Silicon Valley Messaging Protection Received: from maxdialin32.iprg.nokia.com (205.226.20.226, claiming to be "iprg.nokia.com") by darkstar.iprg.nokia.com(WTS.12.69) smtpdyQO1GL; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:31:02 PDT Message-ID: <3ADE3FA5.9F96CA34@iprg.nokia.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:30:13 -0700 From: dennis williamson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.6 problems w/getty reading ports on /dev/ttyv* Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was getting console messages that indicated getty not seeing /dev/ttyv[45678]. Those devices didn't exist, so I created them on FreeBSD 2.2.6 with the following command: cd /dev mknod ttyv4 c 12 4 ... upto #8. Now I get the following messages: Apr 18 18:27:42 ntc2 getty[502]: tcsetattr /dev/ttyv4: Inappropriate ioctl for d evice Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 getty[506]: tcsetattr /dev/ttyv5: Inappropriate ioctl for d evice Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 getty[506]: tcsetattr /dev/ttyv5: Inappropriate ioctl for d evice Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv6, sleep ing 30 secs Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv6, sleep ing 30 secs Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv6, sleep ing 30 secs Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 getty[509]: tcsetattr /dev/ttyv4: Inappropriate ioctl for d evice Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 getty[509]: tcsetattr /dev/ttyv4: Inappropriate ioctl for d evice Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv5, sleep ing 30 secs Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv5, sleep ing 30 secs Apr 18 18:27:43 ntc2 init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv5, sleep ing 30 secs Not sure what to do. Please advise. Thanks in advance. dennisw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message