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From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:27:31 -0500 (EST)
To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
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Subject: RE: Syslog reports weird things
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Koster, K.J. writes:
 > Dear Andrew,
 > 
 > > 
 > > About the only commonality that I see that your machines have and that
 > > mine lacks is the xl nic, but I really doubt that's the problem.
 > >
 > I have no xl card, I have an fxp card instead.
 > 
 > >
 > > Hmm.. What do your /etc/ttys files look like?  Specifically, what are
 > > the settings for the console, vtyv0 and ttyd0 lines.  Eg, I have:
 > > 
 > > console none                            unknown off secure
 > > ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
 > > ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on secure
 > > 
 > My box froze during last week's buildworld. *sigh* It needs a good
 > scrubbing. :-/ All I can tell you that it has the stock 4.2-release
 > /etc/ttys with some of the excess virtual terminals disabled.

Disable the getty on console & make your system look like above.
(getty running on actual device, ttyv0 or ttyd0).

This should fix your syslog / dmesg problems.

Drew

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