From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Mar 24 17:53:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9DC37B718; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA25939; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:53:27 -0800 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:53:21 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mike Smith Cc: "David O'Brien" , Andrew Gallatin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles... In-Reply-To: <200103250147.f2P1leA02521@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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