From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 18:34:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA04865 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA04860 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00259; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:34:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Francisco Reyes cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Can't exec getty /usr/libexec/getty In-Reply-To: <199608252019.UAA32157@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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