At 06:02 PM 6/28/2000 -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>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. :-)

That's just wrong.  Especially if you can switch consoles among several devices
such as from graphics to serial.
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