Re: /etc/ttys defaults, was Persistent green messages interrupting console on NetBSD 6.99.19 i386

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 09:36:37AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> I noticed later, when upgrading NetBSD 6.1 and HEAD from source, that
> etcupdate wants to disable ttyE1, ttyE2 and ttyE3 in /etc/ttys.  I was
> watchful and deleted the requested update of that file.

I consider this a bug in etcupdate.

On new installations, the defaults are machine dependend, but at least
i386 enables four VTs by default via sysinst. I guess amd64 should
copy that (it happens in md_cleanup_install()).

Martin