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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
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