*BSD News Article 40315


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh
From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: What happened to /etc/inittab?
Date: 4 Jan 1995 06:48:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 13
Message-ID: <3edgc9$lkf@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <clintdw-0401950111260001@d61.net.interaccess.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <clintdw-0401950111260001@d61.net.interaccess.com>,
Clinton Wong <clintdw@interaccess.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to set up a terminal on FreeBSD 2.0 and the first thing I
>noticed is that /etc/inittab no longer exists.  What file replaces
>the functionality of /etc/inittab?...  (I'm looking for the part
>that runs getty with respawn)

And never did!  You're confusing us with SYSV, sir! :-)

/etc/ttys.  BSD.  Always.

					Jordan