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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
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Subject: Re: DEVFS and console
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this is because vga is a link to ttyv0
and it comes first in the device database or whatever 'tty' uses to 
figure out what you are on..

I'm not sure who added it, but it gets me here too.
Ohowever my ttys has a line for iI think I must have added it and since
forgotten that I did it.

not sure what teh answer is, but the same would happen without devfs
if vga was a link to ttyv0.


On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm unable to log in on console when I use DEVFS-enabled kernel. syslog
> says:
> 
> LOGIN root REFUSED (NOROOT) ON TTY vga
> 
> I always thought 'vga' is an output device... :-)). Anyway, adding a line:
> 
> vga	none	cons25 off secure
> 
> to /etc/ttys helps to get around this...
> 
> 
> Andrzej Bialecki
> 
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