From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 12: 6:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ocs.drexel.edu (mail.irt.drexel.edu [129.25.3.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9A637BB77 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from st96yb9t@drexel.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (adsl-151-197-17-59.bellatlantic.net) by mail.ocs.drexel.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.03.02.17.58.p5) with ESMTP id <0FSN00I23UE9GV@mail.ocs.drexel.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:06:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 15:08:34 -0400 From: Yoshihiro Ota Subject: Re: /dev/console > 1 virtual cons not the currently active In-reply-to: <002d01bfa0b5$e76bf540$cafa26c3@nugis> To: Paul van Nugteren Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <0FSN00I24UE9GV@mail.ocs.drexel.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Macintosh Eudora Pro Version 3.1.1-Jr1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Use 'Alt + F?' where ? is a number. It lets you login onto another console. Hiro At 7:22 PM +0200 4/7/00, Paul van Nugteren wrote: > First of all I would like to thank you all for replying so quickly to my > previous messages, THANKS! It looks like FreeBSD is the one for me...(Linux > tends to be very blurry because of it's different distros, standards are > nice) > > I've had quite a few error messages today and they al blurred my screen. Now > I wondered if I could reroute (of course I could but how) the /dev/console > to one virtual terminal where wouldn't I'll let any login program start. > Just leave that virtual terminal for system error messages, is that possible > or isn't it much UNIX-style? > > Thanks, > > Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message