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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:55:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   followup: consoles... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103241754130.93314-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103241747430.93314-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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Okay- I don't know what happened, but kill -HUP didn't work until a reboot
(another mystery).

The console entry *does* actually work- nobody broke anything (sorry). 

But why is this entry now off? I have not had to use this for any serial
console machine. Is this required for graphics heads?




On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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