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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [HELP] "init: can't exec getty" errors... Date: 4 Apr 1996 23:19:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4k1lds$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Dp8z3J.Dty@sysadm.physics.uiowa.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 dyson@sunfish.physics.uiowa.edu (Richard L. Dyson) writes: > init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp0: No such file or directory > > Does anyone understand what it is trying to tell me? Or even better > where I should be looking for my problem(s)? You have a screwed /etc/ttys file. You cannot run getty's on pseudo- terminals. The pty entries are only there to allow them being configured as `insecure', i.e., no root logins are allowed when logging in across the network. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)