From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 30 14:33:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17122 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 14:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net (pme43.sunshine.net [204.191.205.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA17117 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 14:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00501; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 14:25:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: kevin.sunshine.net: cagey owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 14:25:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk X-Sender: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net To: Stefan Veith cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: additional consoles In-Reply-To: <199706301919.VAA18162@rpops002.rp-online.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Stefan Veith wrote: > -- [ From: Stefan Veith * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > > I would like to add some virtual consoles for the burne shell (I do not know > if I explain correctly what I think of, I mean the ttyvs). I can currently > switch between Ctrl-F1-F4 and I would like to add about three ones. I > discovered the file /etc/ttys, but adding further ttyvs does not change the > problem, it says: no file /dev/tty4 (and so on). But how can I generate a > suchlike file? > [ ..FAQ90.html.. ] Once you have edited /etc/ttys, the next step is to make sure that you have enough virtual terminal devices. The easiest way to do this is: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV vty12 # For 12 devices [ ..end clip.. ] -- =| Regards, =| FreeBSD ==> http://www.FreeBSD.org =| Kevin G. Eliuk =| "Free at last, free at last, ..."