From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 29 8:13:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEC615157 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 08:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id IAA71138; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 08:10:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 08:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908291510.IAA71138@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Steve Price Subject: Re: bin/12767: Expand /etc/ttys manpage (fwd) Reply-To: Steve Price Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/12767; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Steve Price To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/12767: Expand /etc/ttys manpage (fwd) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 10:03:42 -0500 (CDT) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:30:38 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: gnats@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/12767: Expand /etc/ttys manpage Whilst I'm on the topic, having finished my study of init's behaviour, I'd also like to see something like the following (this'll save the next poor sod having to RTSL to confirm this behaviour): Index: libexec/getty/ttys.5 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/CVSROOT/./src/libexec/getty/ttys.5,v retrieving revision 1.9 diff -u -r1.9 ttys.5 --- ttys.5 1997/11/21 07:43:53 1.9 +++ ttys.5 1999/07/23 04:26:46 @@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ The first field is the name of the terminal special file as it is found in .Pa /dev . +If there is no matching entry in +.Pa /dev , +the command will be started anyway - this can be used to keep critical +daemons running in a similar manner to the System 5 +.Pa /etc/inittab . .Pp The second field of the file is the command to execute for the line, usually Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message