Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:53:21 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103241747430.93314-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200103250147.f2P1leA02521@mass.dis.org>
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > # 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. Actually, no, that's not quite true. I did get things working for /dev/console properly. See below... If I 'fucked it up' I sure don't recall hearing from you about it. > > 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. Please read my mail, Mike. It works fine in 4.2: ----- FreeBSD/alpha (ray.nas.nasa.gov) (console) login: ---- In order for it to work now in 4,3, we'll have to add back a zs0- which at this stage in the release is probably an okay workaround (albeit disappointing). -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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