Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:22:17 +0000 From: Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com> To: Jim Pazarena <paz@ccstores.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mgetty woes Message-ID: <370CF3D9.C9824DEA@csl.com> References: <9904081054.aa02052@dick.ccstores.com>
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Jim Pazarena wrote: > > I recently loaded a 3.1 box (I'm an SCO convert :-[ ) This is a "learning" > box. Needless to say it's a learning curve, but it's also been fun. > > I loaded _most_ of the packages off of the disk; not that I need many > (or ANY) of them, but just to have them available. > > I just discovered that an "mgetty" process is running and it has built > a log file (/var/log/mgetty.cuaa1) over 800Mb! big with configuration > errors. > > I _never_ asked for mgetty but I suspect it got loaded from all the > packages which I loaded. I also never setup any configuration file therefore > I can understand that the default file would have errors. > > Where/how can I disable it? mgetty is invoked from /etc/ttys (in 'BSD V2.2-STABLE anyway). Just hash out the line in /etc/ttys that looks something like cuaa1 "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty" Cheers, Adam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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