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Subject: Re: I mess with file /etc/ttys
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On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:48 am, "Oscar Giraldo" 
<ogiraldo@aquasinc.com> wrote:
> I made some changes to the file /etc/ttys, but I did a wrong entry in
> the ttyv0 section, so my login prompt is not showing now, how can I
> fix this file to boot normally.
>
> Please help.
> OG

I've never encountered this personally, but can you boot into single 
user? If you can, then do that and edit the /etc/ttys file to fix it.

This is the default for ttyv0 in /etc/ttys:

ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure

- jt