port-i386: Re: init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp0: no such file o r directory

Subject: Re: init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp0: no such file o r directory
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/04/1999 20:11:45

In article <4405E0B28BB5D111B596006097B1A22F3FF8EC@communications>,
	Tony Hernandez <tony.hernandez@intellon.com> writes:
> I had to turn on this particular tty because this machine sits headless
> under like 15 other machines :) so I needed to be able to telnet to it,

You do *not* need to activate ptty entries in "/etc/ttys" to be able
to telnet into a box. Just launch "inetd". You have to mark them as
"secure" if you want to be able to login as "root".

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                            http://www.sighardstrasse.de/~tron/