Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:48:04 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to fix init -> /etc/ttys? Message-ID: <44FF3404.2040405@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060906200225.GA35990@thought.org> References: <20060906200225.GA35990@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> Anybody know why getty is having such a bear of a time finding
> a tty? I Can't even get in. I'm at 6.1 and logged in
> single-usr and have /usr mounted on /dev. Because X expects
> to find /usr/lib/Y in /usr I csn't use anything very complex;
> can't poke around....
>
> I very rarely touch /etc/ttys; so why is 6.1 having this
> tantrum?? I'm lost ....
Because getty needs access to the /dev/tty* devices in order to function?
/dev is a truly bizarre choice of mountpoint. Why not use /mnt, which is
there solely to provide a convenient place to mount stuff? Or -- and this
is a radical idea, I know -- why not mount the /usr filesystem on /usr?
Cheers,
Matthew
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