From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 11:29:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461A8150CA for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA22974; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:16:15 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <370CF3D9.C9824DEA@csl.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:22:17 +0000 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Pazarena Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mgetty woes References: <9904081054.aa02052@dick.ccstores.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Pazarena wrote: > > I recently loaded a 3.1 box (I'm an SCO convert :-[ ) This is a "learning" > box. Needless to say it's a learning curve, but it's also been fun. > > I loaded _most_ of the packages off of the disk; not that I need many > (or ANY) of them, but just to have them available. > > I just discovered that an "mgetty" process is running and it has built > a log file (/var/log/mgetty.cuaa1) over 800Mb! big with configuration > errors. > > I _never_ asked for mgetty but I suspect it got loaded from all the > packages which I loaded. I also never setup any configuration file therefore > I can understand that the default file would have errors. > > Where/how can I disable it? mgetty is invoked from /etc/ttys (in 'BSD V2.2-STABLE anyway). Just hash out the line in /etc/ttys that looks something like cuaa1 "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty" Cheers, Adam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message