Subject: Re: strange behavior with logins over serial lines
To: Eric S. Hvozda <hvozda@ack.org>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 05/27/1998 10:13:34
> NetBSD/i386 (ra.ack.org) (tty01)
[...]
> May 27 08:36:29 ra login: LOGIN root REFUSED ON TTY dty01
The first thing you should do is:
ls -l /dev/[dt]ty01
The most likely explanation for this is that you upgraded your system
from a tar file with an old version of pax(1) (or made the tar file
with an old version), and it truncated the minor number for dty01.