From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 05:33:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24937 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:33:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24925 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA21040; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:28:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:28:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Nadav Eiron cc: Gregory Edigarov , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VTY question In-Reply-To: <3507D2B0.64E1@barcode.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Nadav Eiron wrote: > Gregory Edigarov wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > By default, all BSD systems gives only 8 vtys (Alt-F1...AltF8)... > > And I can't found any reason to limit this number. > > In Linux, I was able to use all 12 vtys. Is anywhere a workaround for this > > problem? > > You can set it in the kernel config file using > options "MAXCONS=12" > > Of course, you also have to edit /etc/ttys to allow login on these extra > terminals, and use MAKEDEV to make device nodes for them. You do?? I always just added the entries in /etc/ttys and made sure the devices were all there. I have 11 vty's, with X running on ttyvb. Also note that you should just use F1 etc. to switch between the vty's, unless you're switching from X to a vty. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message