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Date:      Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:17:47 +0300
From:      Bashar <big@kuwaitnet.net>
To:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/console: No such file or directory
Message-ID:  <42C57ABB.8020109@kuwaitnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050701092930.GD83739@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <42C4D368.9070103@kuwaitnet.net> <20050701092930.GD83739@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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True its set to on, but i believe this change was requested from the DC 
to enable the remote console for the box.

would turning it off effect the remote console from working?

Peter Jeremy wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-Jul-01 08:23:52 +0300, Bashar wrote:
>  
>
>>i noticed one of my boxes had the message "init: can't exec getty 'none' 
>>for port /dev/console: No such file or directory" into messages and 
>>repeating forever.
>>    
>>
>
>You should have the following line in /etc/ttys:
>console none                            unknown off secure
>
>The only change you can validly make to this line is to change 'secure'
>to 'insecure' but I suspect you've changed 'off' to 'on'.
>
>Try turning the console back off and sending a SIGHUP to init.
>  
>



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