From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 1:42:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ben.profero.com (ben.profero.com [212.36.157.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F9E37B5AC for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 01:42:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darren@profero.com) Received: from vindaloo (host169.profero.com [212.36.157.169] (may be forged)) by ben.profero.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA54994; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 09:40:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from darren@profero.com) From: "Darren Evans" To: Cc: , Subject: RE: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 09:44:12 +0100 Message-ID: <001c01bfe594$071a5530$a99d24d4@profero.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-reply-to: <20000703125203.C433@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There was an exec command in /etc/rc which caused this :) Removing it fixed the problem. Darren > -----Original Message----- > From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cristjc@earthlink.net] > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 8:52 PM > To: Darren Evans > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org > Subject: Re: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal > > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:22:30PM +0100, Darren Evans wrote: > > > > > > eric init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: > Operation not > > permitted > > # ls -l /dev/console > > > I've tried booting kernel.old and kernel.GENERIC and obviously kernel, > > all come up with this error. > > > > The only thing that has changed, is that i've added some features to > > the kernel, namely these. > > > > I suspect it's the snoop device that causing this menagerie. > ^^^^^^^^^ > What an odd thing to say. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message