From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 20:43:56 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 20:43:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8506637B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:43:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4A31E3E09; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:43:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: serial console To: dtalk@prairienet.org (David Talkington) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:43:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "David Talkington" at Dec 04, 2000 09:36:00 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20001205044353.4A31E3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> From: dima@unixfreak.org (Dima Dorfman) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Talkington wrote: > I managed to get boot messages displayed to the serial console, but > then the login prompt goes to the internal console. No opportunity is > given for login to the serial console except during the boot process. Is ttyd0 marked 'off' in /etc/ttys? It is by default. If it is, change 'off' to 'on' to make it look like this: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" cons25 on secure (yes, I changed dialup->cons25, you don't have to if you don't want to) Note that this won't stop a login prompt from showing up on the internal console. You can have both. If you don't want it, mark v0-v7 'off' in /etc/ttys. Once you're done with your modifications to /etc/ttys, either reboot or send sighup to init (`kill -1 1`). Hopefully that wasn't too confusing.. -- Dima Dorfman Finger dima@unixfreak.org for PGP public key. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message