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- From: drg50@Frobozz.COM (Dave Gavin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS 99p2 missing /bin/getty?
- Keywords: linux SLS 99p2 getty
- Message-ID: <14f202f934Mm01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 19:00:51 GMT
- References: <10mL02du34zH01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Reply-To: drg50@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Dave Gavin)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Boston MA
- Lines: 33
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- In article <10mL02du34zH01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tpa10@css.amdahl.com (Thomas P. Anderson) writes:
- >I downloaded SLS 99p2 from tsx-11.mit.edu yesterday (01/27/93) and did the
- >install. Everything seemed to go fine until I tried to boot and logon as
- >root: when it tried to go multi-user it went into a loop because it couldn't
- >find /bin/getty.
- >
- >It recovered from the loop and left me in single user mode. Sure enough, there
- >was no getty program in the /bin directory.
- >
- >Any ideas where I failed (I ASSUME it must be me, as others have done this and
- >had it work - right?).
- >
- >More to the point: where should the binary be and where can I find it?
- >
- >Thanks.
- >--
- >
- >Tom Anderson | Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam
- >Compatibility Software Products | e tenebras ad luce!
- >tpa10@css.amdahl.com x63115 | - someone famous, i'm sure!
-
-
- Check /etc/getty - I've got both getty and uugetty in both /bin and /etc
- on my system, and I downloaded in on 01/26 from tsx-11.
-
- Good luck - Dave Gavin
-
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