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From: wmbfmk@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: [NetBSD 0.9] login_tty does not work correctly.
Date: 18 Oct 1993 11:08:02 +0100
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <wmbfmk.750938446@rwc.urc.tue.nl>
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Hi All,

After having some problems with a dial-up line's tty settings, things
are still not running perfectly. 
I can login now via the dial-up and run more and vi without garbling my screen, but the
login does not show up with w. There's no entry in the /var/run/utmp.
I'have traced getty up until the point where login_tty(i) is being
called, with the correct filehandle (which is the handle for
/dev/tty00). But when I look with ps -O tty, it says that the getty is
running on com0!!! Which would be a perfectly good reason for the login
not to show up with 'w', since I had that same problem with 386bsd 0.1.

I have included the following line in /etc/ttys
tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.2400" vt100 on secure

I do have a device /dev/com0 which is a link to /dev/tty00.

What could be causing this? (Apart from this things run very smoothly)


Marc van Kempen.