From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 24 18:31:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEB914D62 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 18:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08978; Tue, 25 May 1999 13:29:13 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:29:13 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Matthew Hagerty Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getty error In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990524171126.00b65e20@mail.venux.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 May 1999, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > Greetings, > > I am running 3.1-RELEASE and I rebooted last night after about 68 days of > uptime to install more RAM. When the system came back up I got the > following error messages (every 45 seconds or so) on the console: > > May 24 17:14:29 servbox init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp1: > No such file or directory > May 24 17:14:29 servbox init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp0: > No such file or directory > > What happened? All I did was shutdown, add some memory, and start back up. > This is the top of my /etc/ttys file: [...] > # Pseudo terminals > ttyp0 none network on secure > ttyp1 none network on secure ^^ Leave it off. It's trying to execute `none', ie: the 2nd field. Jonathan Chen -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message