From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 12:15:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74C837B401 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:15:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust73.tnt13.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.36.56.73]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00907; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA08772; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:14:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: "Ian P. Thomas" Message-Id: <200106071914.PAA08772@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: getty and login_tty error message To: mkasch@home.com (Michelle Kasch) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:14:05 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michelle Kasch" at Jun 07, 2001 02:27:40 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After upgrading to 3.x stable, my console line looks like this console none unknown off insecure The insecure is there to require a root password to login in single user mode. std.9600 is usually used for a terminal which will be logged into remotely with 9600 being the line speed. Try changing the values to what mine have and see if that helps. See man ttys, man 5 termcap, man getty and man gettytab for what all this means. Ian In the last episode, Michelle Kasch stated... > > No, /etc/ttys is the original file from the installation. My /etc/ttys is > pasted below. If the value of 9600 needs to change, I don't understand why > the installation would have put it there and why 9600 would be too fast. > > /etc/ttys: > console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > # > ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > # Virtual terminals > ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure > # Serial terminals > # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure > ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure > ttyd2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure > ttyd3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure > > Thanks, > MK > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian P. Thomas" > To: "Michelle Kasch" > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:15 PM > Subject: Re: getty and login_tty error message > > > Have you changed the /etc/ttys file? > > Ian > > In the last episode, Michelle Kasch stated... > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.3. I have been getting these error messages since > > installation: > > > > Jun 3 01:01:38 server026 getty[5869]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation > not > > supported by device > > Jun 3 01:01:38 server026 init: getty repeating too quickly on port > > /dev/console, sleeping 30 secs > > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5871]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation > not > > supported by device > > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5873]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation > not > > supported by device > > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5875]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation > not > > supported by device > > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5877]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation > not > > supported by device > > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 getty[5879]: login_tty /dev/console: Operation > not > > supported by device > > Jun 3 01:02:08 server026 init: getty repeating too quickly on port > > /dev/console, sleeping 30 secs > > > > > > I have not been able to figure out how to fix this issue and it's driving > me > > crazy! Does anyone know why this error might be occuring? I have not > > changed the gettytab file or the fbtab file (they are the original files). > > > > Thanks, > > MK > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message