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Date:      Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:07:47 -0500
From:      Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: autologin on default shell /bin/sh
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> 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
>
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>

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



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