Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:57:01 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Craig Burgess" <craig-burgess@home.net> Cc: <lecn1306@ele.etsmtl.ca>, ": Kees Jan Koster" <dutchman@tccn.cs.kun.nl>, <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: getty on console (was RE: Syslog reports weird things) Message-ID: <15025.33021.208534.712006@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <HIELKMAJNLNFEHBGKKOGEEPMCHAA.craig-burgess@home.net> References: <15025.23622.509745.469218@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <HIELKMAJNLNFEHBGKKOGEEPMCHAA.craig-burgess@home.net>
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Craig Burgess writes: > I never looked here before.... The following is snipped from virgin > /etc/getty: You mean /etc/ttys.. <...> > What will (should) happen when they are turned 'off' ? > > craig See the ttys (5) man page. Basically, the daemon is not run. So, one might ask: "Why was getty enabled on console in the first place?" Serial consoles are (at least percentage wise) much more common on alphas than on i386. Getty was enabled by default on console a year ago to prevent a POLA violation for people who installed onto an alpha via a serial console & then couldn't login via the serial console because the default setting is off for the serial port. Since having a getty run on "console" seems to be causing problems, I think the best solution would be to turn it off & to teach sysinstall to notice you're using a serial console & enable ttyd0 for you. Opinions? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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