From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 11 12:15:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA11138 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:15:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11128 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA11143 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 21:15:29 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA25964 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 21:15:28 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id VAA06762 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 21:10:59 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603112010.VAA06762@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: changes to /etc/ttys To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 21:10:59 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "invalid opcode" at Mar 11, 96 00:10:09 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As invalid opcode wrote: > Exactly, that was my point entirely. A true console. I don't think > keyboard input would matter that much though, seeing as all it does is > get echoed. I'm still missing the point why you don't want a getty on it? If i've got a serial console, i usually also run a getty on it. If i don't like the console behaviour (syslog messages all over the place), i don't need to log in there. Btw., i usually tweak the login message on the console, using a different gettytab entry: # console: add a newline after prompt C|Pc-co|Pc on console:\ :co:lm=Console login^M:tc=Pc: This way, my console looks like: Console login Mar 10 10:32:16 uriah login: ROOT LOGIN (r) ON ttyv0 Mar 10 10:32:16 uriah login: login on ttyv0 as r Mar 10 10:33:11 uriah login: ROOT LOGIN (xdm) ON ttyv0 Mar 10 10:33:11 uriah login: login on ttyv0 as xdm -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)