From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Mar 24 18:12:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F415537B718; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:12:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2P2BSA02821; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:11:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103250211.f2P2BSA02821@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Andrew Gallatin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:05:07 PST." <20010324180507.B7556@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:11:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:59:35PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Sysinstall does need to be fixed, though, to enable the correct getty. > > What happens on non-ZS machines if we put zs0 in ttys and put a getty on it? Getty exits very quickly a few times, and then init stops spawning it for a while. Rinse, repeat. Getty should probably exit silently with a better status code, and init should grok this. I proposed this before, but as usual never followed up with real code. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message