From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 25 13:47:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from drone4.qsi.net.nz (drone4-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz [202.89.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBD5137B400 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:47:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10539 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jan 2002 21:47:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chen.org.nz) ([210.54.19.51]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Jan 2002 21:47:51 -0000 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0PLlYK24533; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:47:34 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:47:34 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Mike Poor Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login_tty /dev/console resolution? Message-ID: <20020126104734.E24296@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <02012509271300.01142@snort> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <02012509271300.01142@snort>; from p00r0ne@digitz.org on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:27:13AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message