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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:12:18 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Caleb Lyness <clyness@cs.uct.ac.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Voice mail on free bsd 
Message-ID:  <29299.945861138@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:57:58 %2B0200." <19991221225758.A5601@cs.uct.ac.za> 

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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:57:58 +0200, Caleb Lyness wrote:

>  Having come from linux - where system V style scripts are used,      
>  I don't know where things like vgetty should be run from. I see      
>  the tty file in /etc but I don't see what actually calls/runs this   
>  script or the program that uses this as a config file.

See the ttys(5) and init(8) manpages, in that order. :-)

>  Assuming this is the file to edit, do I just change the 
>  references to getty to vgetty with the appropriate changes 
>  in the command line parameters?

Hopefully, yes. :-)

>  As far as I know vgetty makes use of cuaXXX instead of ttyXXX - how
>  will this effect the config file?

That shouldn't be a problem, you can use as the first field in ttys any
configured device in the /dev directory.  Again, see the ttys(5) manpage
for more info.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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