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From: trudel@caip.rutgers.edu (Jonathan D. Trudel)
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Subject: Re: /etc/ttytype under 4.0
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Date: 30 Mar 89 23:45:56 GMT
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>In troubleshooting a terminal problem, I noticed that there is no longer a
>/etc/ttytype file under 4.0. 

WHat you need to look at is the man page for ttytab.  Sun in its wisdom
abandoned the /etc/ttys & /etc/ttytype approach in favor of the ttytab
scheme.  It replaces the old system, and is easy to understand.

># kill -HUP 1

>does not really create new version of /etc/ttys which is what I
>interpreted the man page for init to say. Anyone run across this or did I
>read the man page wrong?

When you 'kill' init, ttys is re-initialized to the values found in
ttytab.  If you don't change ttytab, ttys isn't re-created (or is it, but
with the same values?).

	Jon