Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:07:47 -0500 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: autologin on default shell /bin/sh Message-ID: <CAJ5UdcO3ggAnymBsXRxeQnD_Rz7NLBi6KS8%2BhC=zyGF3qtY_FQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E80F29A.2000208@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAJ5UdcN7px94fjidvTkdB53Kc7KNO9939kpk%2BAmUohqc_7m%2BMA@mail.gmail.com> <4E7F4F14.7000408@infracaninophile.co.uk> <CAJ5UdcMbWFgDPSJbP-_eR%2BoUL6wy7F2CK5sCCHSvDFP2XbiCSA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109260944370.67964@wonkity.com> <CAJ5UdcPctQwUSVxDC7h4wwMX1hCzR40Qw-vrdXSSu_K6pSEWSA@mail.gmail.com> <4E80F29A.2000208@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 26/09/2011 22:37, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> in /etc/gettytab >> >> A|Al|Autologin console:\ >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0:ht:np:sp#115200:al=3Dolivares >> >> as my username is olivares. =A0It is working on BETA 2 :) =A0Now I hope = to >> get it working again at home on an 8.2 amd machine. >> I had it working (autologin on 8.2 amd64) on two machines, but I wanted to test out/install nvidia driver and I used sysinstall to install kernel source from 8.2 dvd and then many things I had working, like printer, scanner were erased. Shell changed back to /bin/sh, I was using bash. For some reason or another, it was not working. I did the same thing and now it works again :) >> I will report back but return different machine and different >> information, hope only with a success report :) > > This functionality hasn't changed over many FreeBSD versions -- > certainly since the days of FreeBSD 4.x, and probably not over the > entire lifetime of the FreeBSD project. > > If you do the same thing on your 8.2 machine as you've done on your > 9.0beta2 machine, then it should work exactly the same. > In the beta 2 machine, the /dev/ttys has xterm instead of original cons25. Other than that, you are correct with the rest of the information. It was strange that someone/some folks have changed cons25 to xterm. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Cheers, > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 7 Pri= ory Courtyard > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey =A0 =A0 Ramsgate > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Kent, CT1= 1 9PW > > Thanks to both yourself and Warren for your valuable input. I could not have gotten anywhere without your advice :) I appreciate your advice/comments & suggestions. Also other folks like Polytropon have been tremendous in helping out with some issues I have encountered. Can't forget Anton either with TeTeX issues on ports as well. I hope not to have forgotten anyone :( Regards, Antonio
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