From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 13:12:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2BF37B569 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 13:12:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12bTLE-000OSD-00; Sat, 01 Apr 2000 20:13:52 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12bTLE-000DTl-00; Sat, 01 Apr 2000 20:13:52 +0100 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 20:13:52 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Arcady Genkin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A message from init Message-ID: <20000401201352.I24981@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <871z4psr26.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <002501bf9bfe$035d2e20$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> <87ity1r9z0.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <20000401135043.C28346@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000401135043.C28346@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:45:39PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: >> >> I commented it out, but the messages from init persist: >> ,----[ /var/log/messages ] >> | Apr 1 12:25:54 soup init: can't exec getty '/usr/local/sbin/mgetty' \ >> | for port /dev/cuaa2: No such file or directory >> | Apr 1 12:27:54 soup last message repeated 4 times >> | Apr 1 12:37:55 soup last message repeated 20 times >> `---- >> >> Do I need to restart something? Don't tell me I need to reboot! ;^) > > > # kill -HUP 1 Note that in all but fairly recent FreeBSD releases, this isn't enough. You must explicitly set the the state to "off" instead of "on" in the appropriate line in /etc/ttys, or init won't notice it's gone. Once you've restarted init after making this change, you can delete the line from the file. I think it was Alfred Perlstein who fixed this recently. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message