Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 22:10:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU> To: "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a trick for /etc/ttys Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.961001220442.32033B-100000@aeffle.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <32513737.7720@Colorado.EDU>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Mark O'Lear wrote:
> This sounds like some other process is using the port at
> the same time (like another regular getty?) You should only
> have one cuaa3/ttyd3 line turned on in your /etc/ttys (one
> or the other, not one of each). Can you send the results
> (or report the results) of a 'ps -axw | fgrep a3 | fgrep -v fgrep'
> and 'ps -axw | fgrep d3 | fgrep -v fgrep'. If no one is using
> the modem, you should get one line from the first ps and nothing
> from the second.
Yes. Only have vgetty running on that line.
server: {2} ps -axw | fgrep d3 | fgrep -v fgrep
23934 ?? I 0:00.07 /usr/local/sbin/vgetty ttyd3
server: {3}
>
> I have included the relevant part of my /etc/ttys (although I am
> only using mgetty - I cannot imagine the two are that different
> with regards to the locking mechanism), and the output of the
> two ps commands:
>
> /etc/ttys:
> # Serial terminals
> ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
> ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
> ttyd2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
> ttyd3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
> # Modems
> cuaa0 "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -k 1024 -n 1 /dev/cuaa0"
> unknown on insecure
> cuaa1 "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -k 1024 -n 1 /dev/cuaa1"
> unknown on insecure
> cuaa2 "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -k 1024 -n 1 /dev/cuaa2"
> unknown on insecure
> cuaa3 "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -k 1024 -n 1 /dev/cuaa3"
> unknown on insecure
>
I'm not sure what -k 1024 -n 1 means, but here's mine:
#
# @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
#
# name getty type status comments
#
# This entry needed for asking password when init goes to single-user mode
# If you want to be asked for password, change "secure" to "insecure" here
console none unknown off secure
#
ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
# Virtual terminals
ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm" xterm on secure
# Serial terminals
ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
ttyd2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
ttyd3 "/usr/local/sbin/vgetty" unknown on insecure
# Pseudo terminals
ttyp0 none network
ttyp1 none network
...
>
> P.S. Did you mean to leave off the freebsd-questions list in
> your CC:?
nope... I guess it got dropped by accident. I'll put it back in the cc:
list and see if we can get more input on this...
> --
> Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU
> University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798
> Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105
> Boulder, CO 80309 \
>
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