On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries LLC - NOC wrote:

> The issue is rather obvious from the notification stand-point, but It's an
> honest mistake.  If you've been running BSD on the x86 platform for quite
> a while, it's a second nature step that you'd never question.  If you've
> got a keyboard less sparc server running NetBSD, _never_ enable a getty on
> /dev/ttya, as the openboot has already taken control of the serial port,
> and enabling both serial console (triggered by the absence of keyboard),
> and enabling a getting causes an undesirable terminal results.  It's
> rather frustrating trying to edit /etc/ttys in the middle of an outage,
> when less than 50% of your key-strokes are making it to the server.  I, of
> course, am not conceding that anything crashed today >:)

There's a flip-side. Never enable getty on /dev/console but use the direct
device instead. :-)

Take care,

Bill