odd uptime error message

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Thu Aug 14 15:21:45 PDT 2003


On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:14:07PM -0700, Eric S wrote:
> 
> I checked the archives and /usr/src/UPDATING and didn't see anything
> relating to this, and I might have easily missed it in the digest.  I've
> got two different boxes that are running a recent -stable, and recently
> they both started spitting out the error message
> 
> 	uptime: /dev/:0: No such file or directory
> 

It's in the archives:

    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-April/004276.html

You can fiddle with /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xreset and Xstartup to
get rid of this message. I personally use "-l console"
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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