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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!pipex!uknet!bcc.ac.uk!news From: davek@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Dave Kirkby) Subject: Re: getty WHERE?!? - HELP Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Message-ID: <1994Dec19.115528.44747@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 11:55:28 GMT Reply-To: davek@medphys.ucl.ac.uk References: <3cvi3n$756$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> Organization: UCL Dept of Medical Physics Lines: 19 I too are having a few problems with getty, but I just may be able to help you. My experiences are mainly with system V unix, so ... /etc/getty is an executable program. It allows users to log in on a terminal. A file /etc/inittab (or my system anyway) tells getty where to let people log in on. There is probably an entry for /dev/tty10a. If /dev/tty10a does dot exist, getty will fail. If the device file /dev/tty10a exists, but the terminal associated with it does not then again it will fail. You might try commenting out a line with /dev/tty10a in inittab, then typing init q which will get init to re-read the file and so hopefully stop the error messages. davek