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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2000 23:36:25 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Sean-Paul Rees <sean@dreamfire.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2 init processes and faxgetty
Message-ID:  <20000218233625.L21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000218211931.A71286@dreamfire.net>; from sean@dreamfire.net on Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 09:19:31PM -0800
References:  <20000218211931.A71286@dreamfire.net>

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* Sean-Paul Rees <sean@dreamfire.net> [000218 21:49] wrote:
> Got a 3.4-STABLE machine, cvsup'ed presumably at 1/20/2000 (the kernel build
> date).
> 
> [root@valiant]-/var/log# ps ax|grep init
>     1  ??  Ss     0:06.43 /sbin/init --
> 71295  ??  S      0:00.00 /sbin/init --
> 
> There are two init processes, and in my log file:
> 
> Feb 18 21:14:12 valiant init: can't exec getty '/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty' for 
> port /dev/cuaa0: No such file or directory
> Feb 18 21:16:12 valiant last message repeated 4 times
> Feb 18 21:16:42 valiant init: can't exec getty '/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty' for 
> port /dev/cuaa0: No such file or directory
> Feb 18 21:17:12 valiant init: can't exec getty '/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty' for
> port /dev/cuaa0: No such file or directory
> 
> I just wiped hylafax and removed its entry from /etc/ttys. Then I sent a 
> KILL -HUP 1. The errors still comes up, how do I fix this? Short of
> rebooting, I hope :-)

Ah, :) init gets confused if you just remove the entry, you ought to
turn it 'off', then HUP and then remove.

Try to recreate the line in /etc/ttys but specify it as off.

-Alfred


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