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Date:      Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:48:04 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to fix init -> /etc/ttys?
Message-ID:  <44FF3404.2040405@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20060906200225.GA35990@thought.org>
References:  <20060906200225.GA35990@thought.org>

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Gary Kline wrote:
> 	Anybody know why getty is having such a bear of a time finding
> 	a tty?  I Can't even get in.  I'm at 6.1 and logged in=20
> 	single-usr and have /usr mounted on /dev.  Because X expects
> 	to find /usr/lib/Y in /usr I csn't use anything very complex;
> 	can't poke around....
>=20
> 	I very rarely touch /etc/ttys; so why is 6.1 having this=20
> 	tantrum??  I'm lost ....

Because getty needs access to the /dev/tty* devices in order to function?=


/dev is a truly bizarre choice of mountpoint.   Why not use /mnt, which i=
s
there solely to provide a convenient place to mount stuff?  Or -- and thi=
s
is a radical idea, I know -- why not mount the /usr filesystem on /usr?

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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