Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:47:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles... Message-ID: <200103250147.f2P1leA02521@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:39:57 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103241733350.93295-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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> # If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for the root password
> # when going to single-user mode.
> console none unknown off secure
>
> I sure wish I knew what happened here, but at some point past 4.2,
> /dev/console got broken for Alpha 8200s.
...
> What really pisses me off about this is that I worked goddamned hard to fix
> this back in 4.1.
Actually, what you did back then was fuck up everyone that wasn't using
zs0.
> Does anyone have a notion as to what complete dufus managed to break this for
> 4.3?
Whoever took the zs0 entry out of /etc/ttys.
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