From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 02:58:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA28872 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 02:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plum.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA28855 Thu, 25 Apr 1996 02:58:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by plum.blueberry.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA05230; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:55:18 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <199604250955.KAA05230@plum.blueberry.co.uk> Subject: Re: /dev/console To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:55:08 +0100 (BST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3637.830372627@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 24, 96 08:03:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Try this: > > gary@palmer:~> cat /etc/fbtab > /dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console Great. Even better then turning on the console in /etc/ttys. Can you (or someone else) explain why this isn't turned on by default? If there aren't any reasons not to do it I'll do a low priority send-pr about it. N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry Design ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it. ]ENTP