Changes in ttys

Changes in ttys http://nxr.netbsd.org/rss/src/etc/etc.i386/ttys en Copyright 2005 Java Switch default console tty from /dev/console to /dev/constty With this switch processes (such as xconsole) can open /dev/console without breaking login on the text or serial console. This can be trivially triggered by enabling xdm in rc.conf and hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 or equivalent once booted. The changes: - Add entry for /dev/console or /dev/constty if missing - If a port's had /dev/console 'on' switch it off and enable /dev/constty - If a port did not have /dev/console 'on', leave /dev/constty off Some ports had /dev/console off and /dev/ttyE0 enabled, presumably to avoid just this issue. It may make sense to adjust these also (but not in this pass) As discussed on current-users /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.21 Wed Sep 25 23:09:22 UTC 2019 abs branches: 1.20.34; 1.20.36; Per discussion on tech-userlevel, finally fix PR 10127: move all ttyE* entries that use "vt100" emulation to wsvt25 term type. The terminfo vt220 entry lacked (correctly) a delete key entry, which was a regression against the netbsd-5 termcap entry. On the other hand, only a very small number of foreign systems lacks support for wsvt25 nowadays. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.20 Wed Jun 13 20:49:13 UTC 2012 martin branches: 1.19.18; 1.19.20; Add a constty entry, marked 'off', with otherwise the same settings as the console. Now when coming up in single user mode the tset in /.profile can set the terminal type correctly. Note: I believe constty should be 'on' and console 'off', but thats a separate discussion /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.19 Tue Oct 07 10:00:01 UTC 2008 abs branches: 1.18.26; remove ad-hok list of pty's from port tty files, and auto-generate it so that it is consistent, and in the proper order. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.18 Sun Jun 20 21:30:27 UTC 2004 christos Revert 'console' back to /dev/console (from /dev/constty) /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.17 Sat Oct 04 07:41:12 UTC 2003 dsl Change 'console' login to use /dev/constty so that its output isn't stolen by code that requests system messages using TIOCCONS. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.16 Fri Oct 03 14:54:21 UTC 2003 dsl Back out last change as suggested by Hubert Feyrer in private e-mail: The "ttys" file is modified by "sysinst" during installation. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.15 Sun Feb 17 21:04:31 UTC 2002 tron Enable for "getty" processes because because the i386 port used wscons(4) default these days and the default "wsconf.conf" creates four screens. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.14 Sun Feb 17 20:41:42 UTC 2002 tron Added ttyp[g-zA-Z] (bin/15594). /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.13 Wed Feb 13 09:46:08 UTC 2002 martti Do what we should have been doing long ago; use /dev/console by default as the boot console tty, so that the console is on the same place that the kernel dmesg output goes, whether wscons or serial. Users who want to use tty00 or ttyE0 explicitly can change /etc/ttys themselves. Also use "vt100" as terminal type for /dev/console (for a reasonable baseline that also works with wscons; pccons is long since no longer default). This addresses PR install/13249, i386-specific, but may be appropriate to apply to all ports. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.12 Tue Jun 19 20:06:46 UTC 2001 tv This should be the final part of moving to 64 PTYs by default. Added entries for tty{r,s}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f} to /etc/ttys. Thanks to Matthew Green for pointing out the need. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.11 Sat Aug 12 13:43:49 UTC 2000 mason branches: 1.10.8; turn off ttyE[123] by default -- default installs don't configure them. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.10 Sat May 01 00:23:27 UTC 1999 perry branches: 1.9.2; wscons is default now - replace the "ttyv0" getty by a number of "ttyEn" lines. Thanks to "Johnny C. Lam" <lamj@stat.cmu.edu> for pointing out. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.9 Tue Feb 02 14:33:04 UTC 1999 drochner RCS ID police /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.8 Tue Oct 15 03:42:52 UTC 1996 perry Change vga to ttyv0, with a symlink for X. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.7 Sun Jul 31 08:44:32 UTC 1994 mycroft branches: 1.6.2; reality /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.6 Sat Feb 05 00:51:58 UTC 1994 deraadt changes from 0.9-ALPHA2 to 0.9-BETA /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.5 Mon Aug 23 04:59:38 UTC 1993 cgd branches: 1.4.2; Remove a spurious `unknown' that was screwing people over. /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.4 Sat Jul 10 21:23:36 UTC 1993 mycroft changes for init... /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.3 Thu Jul 08 01:50:42 UTC 1993 cgd changed `console' to `vga' /src/etc/etc.i386/ttys - 1.2 Fri Apr 02 08:05:12 UTC 1993 cgd