Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:57:27 -0800 (PST) From: Mervin McDougall <mcd_advisory@yahoo.com> To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I mess with file /etc/ttys Message-ID: <20050216035728.46099.qmail@web30910.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200502151709.46808.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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--- Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I believe this would be most appropriately handled in freebsd-questions. Anyway, I am never going to turn away from helping a fellow bsd user. Another option would be to use the fixit disk to mount the root partition and edit your /etc/ttys file once done save the changes and reboot. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
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