Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 20:13:52 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A message from init Message-ID: <20000401201352.I24981@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000401135043.C28346@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <871z4psr26.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <002501bf9bfe$035d2e20$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> <87ity1r9z0.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <20000401135043.C28346@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:45:39PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: >> >> 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! ;^) > > > # kill -HUP 1 Note that in all but fairly recent FreeBSD releases, this isn't enough. You must explicitly set the the state to "off" instead of "on" in the appropriate line in /etc/ttys, or init won't notice it's gone. Once you've restarted init after making this change, you can delete the line from the file. I think it was Alfred Perlstein who fixed this recently. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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