From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 12 00:21:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA14306 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:21:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA14266 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:20:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA29493 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:20:50 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02457 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:20:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA03752 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:18:30 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603120818.JAA03752@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:18:30 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603120407.PAA28341@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 12, 96 03:07:50 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > >Hmm, there was a saying the running getty on /dev/console used to be > >totally broken. Bruce? Ever tried it lately? > > Not lately. I use syscons, which still has the hack of using a special > minor device for the console so that /dev/console is a little different > from /dev/vt0. I think there is nothing special for pcvt, so /dev/vt0 > is the console. ...and i've been one of the guys who never had problems in running a getty on /dev/console. Though you've once convinced me that it was broken for pcvt, too (i only didn't really notice). I've never looked again into this. I know of some commercial (non-PC) systems that have a getty running on /dev/console. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)