From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 00:07:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2136106564A for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9808FC08 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadk27 with SMTP id k27so8102049iad.13 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:07:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=U851EeBrjRVxW6eCnk/GEpzUAVckbZ/RlLFmuZwP2Zo=; b=PKfCk3QoctbQupdJuCjoTeazUvy44ApHN6vK1XFrL9TtlWFib4l8/vm5+XJxQEDbQ/ JBuiIaXn5tKnK4nc0oQfQ9FFt+JEvRTgjOcYzRsmE4RUsg4JoINH+s8us5Q/oFNu9hE+ CqBPodcNQB76mUw/qWcjwndiKy9ukvO1jMAnM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.28.5 with SMTP id l5mr8304880icc.224.1317082067992; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.177.199 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:07:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E80F29A.2000208@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4E7F4F14.7000408@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4E80F29A.2000208@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:07:47 -0500 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: autologin on default shell /bin/sh X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:07:50 -0000 On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 26/09/2011 22:37, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> in /etc/gettytab >> >> A|Al|Autologin console:\ >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0:ht:np:sp#115200:al=3Dolivares >> >> as my username is olivares. =A0It is working on BETA 2 :) =A0Now I hope = to >> get it working again at home on an 8.2 amd machine. >> I had it working (autologin on 8.2 amd64) on two machines, but I wanted to test out/install nvidia driver and I used sysinstall to install kernel source from 8.2 dvd and then many things I had working, like printer, scanner were erased. Shell changed back to /bin/sh, I was using bash. For some reason or another, it was not working. I did the same thing and now it works again :) >> I will report back but return different machine and different >> information, hope only with a success report :) > > This functionality hasn't changed over many FreeBSD versions -- > certainly since the days of FreeBSD 4.x, and probably not over the > entire lifetime of the FreeBSD project. > > If you do the same thing on your 8.2 machine as you've done on your > 9.0beta2 machine, then it should work exactly the same. > In the beta 2 machine, the /dev/ttys has xterm instead of original cons25. Other than that, you are correct with the rest of the information. It was strange that someone/some folks have changed cons25 to xterm. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Cheers, > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 7 Pri= ory Courtyard > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey =A0 =A0 Ramsgate > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Kent, CT1= 1 9PW > > Thanks to both yourself and Warren for your valuable input. I could not have gotten anywhere without your advice :) I appreciate your advice/comments & suggestions. Also other folks like Polytropon have been tremendous in helping out with some issues I have encountered. Can't forget Anton either with TeTeX issues on ports as well. I hope not to have forgotten anyone :( Regards, Antonio