From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 23:12:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EAF637B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFD943E4A for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (1fb8ea67d21f7ebded639699bd522a46@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8U6DBho033516; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:13:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8U6DA3P033515; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:13:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:13:10 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Roger Merritt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to restore 'getty' Message-ID: <20020930061310.GW77771@vectors.cx> References: <3.0.6.32.20020930084023.0082eaf0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020930084023.0082eaf0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG gotta build it before you can install it. cd /usr/src/libexec/getty make depend make obj make make install just a thought, anyway. -Adam >> (09.29.2002 @ 1840 PST): Roger Merritt said, in 0.8K: << > Last week my server rebooted spontaneously while running 'portupgrade', and > froze during initialization of local packages. Luckily, I have been able > to get in using SSH from another terminal. The problem that shows up in > /var/log/messages is: "init: can't get /dev/console for controlling > terminal: Operation not permitted". After doing some research, I tried > running 'getty' and my session froze. It looks like the 'getty' binary > somehow got farkled (stray alpha particle?). > > So I went to /usr/src/libexec/getty and tried to run "make install". I got > the error message: "install: getty: No such file or directory". I'm sure > there's a way to do this without building world. Can someone direct me to > the solution? > -- > Roger > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "How to restore 'getty'" from Roger Merritt << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message