From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 23:35:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EA437BB8E for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:35:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA12193; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:36:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:36:25 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Sean-Paul Rees Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 init processes and faxgetty Message-ID: <20000218233625.L21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000218211931.A71286@dreamfire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000218211931.A71286@dreamfire.net>; from sean@dreamfire.net on Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 09:19:31PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Sean-Paul Rees [000218 21:49] wrote: > Got a 3.4-STABLE machine, cvsup'ed presumably at 1/20/2000 (the kernel build > date). > > [root@valiant]-/var/log# ps ax|grep init > 1 ?? Ss 0:06.43 /sbin/init -- > 71295 ?? S 0:00.00 /sbin/init -- > > There are two init processes, and in my log file: > > Feb 18 21:14:12 valiant init: can't exec getty '/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty' for > port /dev/cuaa0: No such file or directory > Feb 18 21:16:12 valiant last message repeated 4 times > Feb 18 21:16:42 valiant init: can't exec getty '/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty' for > port /dev/cuaa0: No such file or directory > Feb 18 21:17:12 valiant init: can't exec getty '/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty' for > port /dev/cuaa0: No such file or directory > > I just wiped hylafax and removed its entry from /etc/ttys. Then I sent a > KILL -HUP 1. The errors still comes up, how do I fix this? Short of > rebooting, I hope :-) Ah, :) init gets confused if you just remove the entry, you ought to turn it 'off', then HUP and then remove. Try to recreate the line in /etc/ttys but specify it as off. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message