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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Subject: Re: i386/14558: Incorrect behaviour allscreens section in rc.i386 under certain circumstantions 
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The following reply was made to PR i386/14558; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: oleg@reis.zp.ua
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/14558: Incorrect behaviour allscreens section in rc.i386 under certain circumstantions 
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:10:02 +0200

 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:35:05 +0300, oleg@apholina.marka.net.ua wrote:
 
 > !       for ttyv in `grep ^ttyv /etc/ttys | cut -f 1`
 >         do
 > !               vidcontrol </dev/$ttyv ${allscreens_flags}
 >         done
 >   fi
 >   echo '.'
 > --- 114,122 ----
 >   # set this mode for all virtual screens
 >   if [ "X${allscreens_flags}" != X"" ] ; then
 >         echo -n ' allscreens'
 > !       for ttyv in /dev/ttyv*
 >         do
 > !               vidcontrol <$ttyv ${allscreens_flags}
 >         done
 
 Surely this just hides the problem from the administrator? To have ttys
 enabled in /etc/ttys but not configured in /dev is an error that should
 be addressed, surely?
 
 Certainly, rc.i386 doesn't die because of this, so I don't see the
 benefit of the proposed change.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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