I mess with file /etc/ttys

[Mervin McDougall]

--- Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig at spymac.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:48 am, "Oscar
> Giraldo" 
> <ogiraldo at aquasinc.com> wrote:
> > I made some changes to the file /etc/ttys, but I
> did a wrong entry in
> > the ttyv0 section, so my login prompt is not
> showing now, how can I
> > fix this file to boot normally.
> >
> > Please help.
> > OG
> 
> I've never encountered this personally, but can you
> boot into single 
> user? If you can, then do that and edit the
> /etc/ttys file to fix it.
> 
> This is the default for ttyv0 in /etc/ttys:
> 
> ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on 
> secure
> 
> - jt
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I believe this would be most appropriately handled in
freebsd-questions. Anyway, I am never going to turn
away from helping a fellow bsd user. Another option
would be to use the fixit disk to mount the root
partition and edit your /etc/ttys file once done save
the changes and reboot.


		
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