From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 9:45:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (mail2.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DED37B8A9 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:45:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from antipode@thpoon.com) Received: from tea.thpoon.com ([24.114.152.71]) by mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000401174540.VBI13994.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@tea.thpoon.com> for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:45:40 -0800 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12bRxr-0005oF-00 for ; Sat, 01 Apr 2000 12:45:39 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A message from init References: <871z4psr26.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <002501bf9bfe$035d2e20$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 01 Apr 2000 12:45:39 -0500 Message-ID: <87ity1r9z0.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "C J Michaels" writes: > All you should need to do is edit /etc/ttys and correct the entries that are > pointing to the wrong getty. The correct entries should be pointing to > "/usr/libexec/getty". Thanks for the pointer. Indeed, I had in /etc/ttys the following line: ,----[ /etc/ttys ] | cuaa2 "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty" unknown on insecure `---- I commented it out, but the messages from init persist: ,----[ /var/log/messages ] | Apr 1 12:25:54 soup init: can't exec getty '/usr/local/sbin/mgetty' \ | for port /dev/cuaa2: No such file or directory | Apr 1 12:27:54 soup last message repeated 4 times | Apr 1 12:37:55 soup last message repeated 20 times `---- Do I need to restart something? Don't tell me I need to reboot! ;^) Any further ideas? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message