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From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: "Julian C. Dunn" <lists@aquezada.com>
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Subject: Re: getty: open /dev/ttyu0: No such file or directory
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On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:47:41PM -0400, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> Iust upgraded to 5.3BETA-7, and on the console as soon as the machine 
> boots up, the above appears. Examining /usr/src/etc/etc.sparc64/ttys (and 
> of course /etc/ttys), there indeed are lines
> 
> ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on  secure
> ttyu1   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on  secure
> 
> However, devfs isn't creating ttyu[0|1] in /dev. Is this normal?
> 

The ttys file had been that way for a while but the behavior of the
init process had masked it.  Last week the behavior of init was
changed slightly, and unmasked this problem.

I committed a change to the ttys file in HEAD last night and will
MFC it in 3 days.  Thanks for pointing this out though.

-- 
						Ken Smith
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