From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 14 23:02:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA09170 for current-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:02:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA09159 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:02:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mordillo (lislip.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.126]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id IAA29589 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:02:21 +0100 (MET) Received: (from news@localhost) by mordillo (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA09964; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 07:55:51 +0100 To: current@FreeBSD.org Path: graichen From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: local.freebsd-current Subject: Re: changes to /etc/csh.* Date: 14 Mar 1996 06:55:50 GMT Organization: his FreeBSD box :-) Lines: 25 Distribution: local Message-ID: <4i8ftm$6p3@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <199603132025.VAA12321@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.physik.fu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : As Thomas Graichen wrote: : > : This should go into /etc/ttys instead. (Though it's not automagic : > : there.) : > : > thats why i put it into csh.login etc. - so you don't have to change : > _anything_ then switching console types : : Still sounds too kludgy for me. : I could live with /etc/ttys being built from /etc/ttys.in during : /etc/rc time. This would also solve the ``run getty on : /dev/console?'' problem, or the problems of getty respawning too : rapidly if neither syscons nor pcvt have been found at all. ok - but this is your own hack ? - how about integrating it into the main tree - i think there shoudn't be any changes in /etc/ttys or whatever required if you want to change the consolte type in the kernel t -- thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery