From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 15:21:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643A137B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6866543FDD for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7EMLOpI066013; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:21:24 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7EMLNEQ066012; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:21:23 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:21:23 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Eric S Message-ID: <20030814222123.GB65897@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20030814140321.A40842@harlie.bfd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030814140321.A40842@harlie.bfd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: odd uptime error message X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:21:45 -0000 On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:14:07PM -0700, Eric S wrote: > > I checked the archives and /usr/src/UPDATING and didn't see anything > relating to this, and I might have easily missed it in the digest. I've > got two different boxes that are running a recent -stable, and recently > they both started spitting out the error message > > uptime: /dev/:0: No such file or directory > It's in the archives: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-April/004276.html You can fiddle with /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xreset and Xstartup to get rid of this message. I personally use "-l console" -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.