By the power vested in me as releng (and after consulting with some
people), I did a last minute pullup to turn off those ttys by
default. This will, hopefully, prevent trouble in 1.4 RELEASE.

Perry

Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:

> On 30 Apr 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> : > : 2) getty[XXX]: /dev/ttyE[123]: Device not configured
> : > : 
> : > : Why are these enabled in /etc/ttys if GENERIC doesn't support them?
> : > 
> : > GENERIC should support then in 1.4_BETA - those are the wscons devices.
> : > Hrm....
> : 
> : They don't turn on, though, until you turn on wsconfig.
> 
> Ah, yes, ttyE0 isn't in that list.  It was the _additional_ ttys that
> didn't get configured at compile time.  8-)
> 
> -- 
> -- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)