From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 11:58:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from durango.picus.com (durango.picus.com [209.100.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F1637B5E0 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 11:58:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from arcadia [209.100.20.198] by durango.picus.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id A4928670134; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:57:22 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" To: "Gary Kline" Cc: Subject: RE: running headless Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 15:00:34 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: <200005231855.LAA22995@tera.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On installation (have monitor, keyboard then), I remove all but the console port (in case I need to hook up for some reason). getty doesn't get out of control. The BIOS is set to ignore all errors, and the kernel doesn't really care if there's a keyboard or not. -Troy ** -----Original Message----- ** From: Gary Kline [mailto:kline@tera.com] ** Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 6:44 PM ** To: Troy Settle ** Cc: kline@tera.com; questions@freebsd.org ** Subject: Re: running headless ** ** ** According to Troy Settle: ** > ** > I've got 5 or 6 boxes running headless. I don't do anything ** special with ** > the kernel. ** > ** ** Do you do anything to getty or anything else in /etc so ** that getty isn't continually trying to spawn a tty for ** the console? ** ** Seems to me that I got complaints trying to boot without ** a keyboard once... ** ** It'd be nice if I could move my othre CRT//keyboard away ** and boot without things blowing up (!) ** ** gary ** ** ** > ** ** ** -- ** Gary Kline ** Cray Inc ** Seattle, Washington ** ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message