>
> Mark Murray writes:
> > Hi
> >
> > The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
> > box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
> >
> > Any objections to my committing this?
>
> I object.
>
> Most of my machines are headless without video cards and use a serial
> console. With devfs this means that /dev/ttyv[1-N] do not exist and
> getty bitches like this:
>
> Sep 26 11:00:11 monet getty[543]: open /dev/ttyv1: No such file or directory
>
> Its an incredible pain in the ass to get spammed by these things on a
> 9600 baud serial console while you're editing ttys to turn the damned
> things off. I don't want to have to have 4 more lines of spam to
> deal with when installing a new server.
i have the same behavior, to fix this, i've built a post install
script to automate some taks (suchs as sendmail configs, directory modes,
standard users, cvsup/make world (-STABLE) and more..)
Here's a part of this script:
# commenting virtual consols in /etc/ttys
cp /etc/ttys /tmp/temp_ttys
cat /tmp/temp_ttys | sed 's/ttyv[12345678]/#&/' > /etc/ttys
it's a bit porky, but it works...
>
> If you also fix getty to silently ignore the problem and go to sleep
> forever, then I withdraw my objection.
my best "solution" would be a standard postinstall script that you
could store on an accessible host, the, after each install, you download
and execute that file.. Thus, you wouldn't need to edit the /etc/ttys :)
my 2 cents..
fifi...
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
>
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