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Date:      Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:34:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Francisco Reyes <reyes01@ibm.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Can't exec getty /usr/libexec/getty
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960826183347.219C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199608252019.UAA32157@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net>

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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> While continuing experimentation with installing 2.1.5 I restored my
> /etc directory that I had saved. With this I guess that the /etc/ttys
> was restored, but I had added some virtual consoles and I forgot to
> ./MAKEDEV.
> 
> I copy the /etc/ttys to a dos floppy, edited in dos to remove the
> additional console I had added and try again. I still got the can't
> exec getty error.
> 
> Any ideas how to solve this problem?

Try ./MAKEDEV vty? where ? is the number of virtual consoles specified in
/etc/ttys.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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