Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:30:13 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Joachim Dagerot <freebsd@dagerot.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "can'texec getty'/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm" for port /dev/tty8: no such file or directory Message-ID: <20040920133013.GI6502@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200409201256.i8KCuop26171@thunder.trej.net> References: <200409201256.i8KCuop26171@thunder.trej.net>
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:56:50PM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
> I have had this error message for quite some time now. It's not
> bothering me too much because it's mainly published in the logs and on
> the console, and I normally don't even have a monitor attached to the
> system.
>=20
> But now during this weekends maintainance I have been working from
> console and get the message:
>=20
> "can't exec getty '/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm" for port /dev/tty8: no such
> file or directory
>=20
> every 30 second or so, incredibly irritating when writing a longer
> bash-command.
>=20
> I searched the archive but only found a solution telling that the /usr
> was improperly mounted, which in no way is the case.
>=20
> Any other ideas?
Edit /etc/ttys and change the line that says:
ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
to say:
ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure
^^^
The tell init(8) to re-read that file:
# kill -HUP 1
That's presuming you don't actually have xdm(1) installed or want to
run it.
Cheers,
Matthew
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