Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:11:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles... Message-ID: <200103250211.f2P2BSA02821@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:05:07 PST." <20010324180507.B7556@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:59:35PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Sysinstall does need to be fixed, though, to enable the correct getty.
>
> What happens on non-ZS machines if we put zs0 in ttys and put a getty on it?
Getty exits very quickly a few times, and then init stops spawning it for
a while. Rinse, repeat.
Getty should probably exit silently with a better status code, and init
should grok this. I proposed this before, but as usual never followed up
with real code.
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