Subject: Re: Several questions
To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@geri.cc.fer.hr>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/10/2004 17:01:45
In message <404F884F.9020201@geri.cc.fer.hr>, Ivan Voras writes:
>Hernani Marques Madeira wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:38:12 +0100
>> Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>>
>>>- how to switch virtual consoles? (maybe I need to activate them first?)
>>
>>
>> Yes, you can activate them editing /etc/ttys.
>
>I tried, but messed something up. What I did was modify the lines:
>
>ttyE0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 on secure
>ttyE1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 on secure
>ttyE2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 on secure
>ttyE3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 on secure
>
>to state "on" instead of off. Now the console is somehow broken - some
>characters get 'lost', at times it becomes unresponsive, etc. (It did
>say something like 'device unavailable /dev/ttyE0..E3' but I lost the
>actual error message. I have /dev/ttyE0..E7 and /dev/E7cfg present.
>
Don't enable ttyE0 and console.
Here's the start of mine:
#
# from: @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
# $NetBSD: ttys,v 1.15 2002/02/17 21:04:31 tron Exp $
#
# name getty type status comments
#
console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt100 on secure
ttyE0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
ttyE1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 on secure
ttyE2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 on secure
ttyE3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
ttyE4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
tty01 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
tty02 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
tty03 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
tty04 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
tty05 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
tty06 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
tty07 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
ttyp0 none network
ttyp1 none network
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb