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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: mini-Head's up: rc.syscons now test for /dev/ttyv0 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jun 2002 14:04:13 MST."
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 14:04:13 MST, Doug Barton wrote:

> 	Based on some suggestions by a user, I've added the following to the
> top of rc.syscons:
> 
> # Handle diskless boots, and other situations where syscons is not
> present
> #
> if [ ! -c "${kbddev}" ]; then
>         exit 0
> fi
> 
> As far as I can tell, this should be safe, but if anyone comes across
> wackiness, please let me know.

Since this script relies on /usr being mounted already, wouldn't ye olde
"kldstat -v | grep ' scterm-sc$'" provide a more faithful answer?

I'm not sure how much it actually matters, though.  A nonexistent
/dev/ttyv0 seems quite pathalogical to me.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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