From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 15 12:51:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29678 for current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:51:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29666 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA18824 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:51:11 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA04573 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:51:11 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id VAA02164 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:27:55 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603152027.VAA02164@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: changes to /etc/csh.* To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:27:54 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <4i8ftm$6p3@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Mar 14, 96 06:55:50 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Thomas Graichen wrote: > : I could live with /etc/ttys being built from /etc/ttys.in during > : /etc/rc time. This would also solve the ``run getty on > : /dev/console?'' problem, or the problems of getty respawning too > : rapidly if neither syscons nor pcvt have been found at all. > ok - but this is your own hack ? Not yet there (and i probably don't need it either -- i don't use syscons :). > - how about integrating it into the main tree - i think there > shoudn't be any changes in /etc/ttys or whatever required if you > want to change the consolte type in the kernel The console type is not even necessarily (statically) changed in the kernel, remember the boot -h. It changes rather seldom anyway, that's why i'm opposing to make the decision at .profile/.login time. /etc/ttys should also easily catch up with the situation that suddenly the graphics console is entirely removed (or being reconfigured so that less vty's are available). By now, this situation is rather fatal, i.e. init is trying to spawn many getty's over and over again. I don't have a universal solution handy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)