From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 22 16:48:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA15988 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:48:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA15971; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:48:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA06723; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:47:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA10917; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:46:28 -0400 (EDT) To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: bin/958 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:47:18 PDT." <199610220847.BAA12986@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:46:27 -0400 Message-ID: <10915.846027987@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Marc G. Fournier" wrote in message ID <199610220847.BAA12986@freefall.freebsd.org>: > MAKEDEV should in this case add the /etc/ttys entries or /etc/ttys should > contain all possible ttys. This would save trouble when installing more > ttys and reduce noise on freebsd-questions as newbies ask why their logins > do not shop up in w. Minimum might be adding MAKEDEV echo line which would > tell the user "Remember to add new tty devices to /etc/ttys" ? Actually, that is a bit short-sighted in a way, considering that MAKEDEV will be going away when devfs is rolled out. We need some way to handle x number of ptys transparently. Probably just default them to be `network insecure' or somesuch if not found in /etc/ttys. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info