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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:47:34 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Mike Poor <p00r0ne@digitz.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: login_tty /dev/console resolution?
Message-ID:  <20020126104734.E24296@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <02012509271300.01142@snort>; from p00r0ne@digitz.org on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:27:13AM -0500
References:  <02012509271300.01142@snort>

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:27:13AM -0500, Mike Poor wrote:
> I just installed 4.4 on a box, and am getting these error messages printed 
> out to the screen every 30 seconds or so.  I did notice a post with this same 
> problem in 2001, but I could not find a resolution to his problem on the list.
> 
> The message is as follows:
> 
> date	host	getty[pid]: login_tty /dev/console : Operation Not supported by 
> device
> 
> If someone could help me resolve this I would greatly appreciate it ;)

Your console entry in /etc/ttys needs to look like this:

    console none                            unknown off secure

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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