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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2007 03:14:01 -0400
From:      Michael Hauber <wizlayer@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: not able to output anything to /dev/ttyv8?
Message-ID:  <200706060314.14048.wizlayer@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1181100184.13270.17.camel@joe.realss.com>
References:  <1181100184.13270.17.camel@joe.realss.com>

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On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:23:04 pm Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Dear list
>
> On Gentoo Linux I used to redirect the output of a certain app
> to /dev/tty10 and switch to tty10 (by using Alt+F10)
>
> this is useful to keep watching the application.
>
> this doesn't work on FreeBSD. I can do
> # ehco hello > /dev/ttyv8
> # ehco hello > /dev/ttyv9
> # ehco hello > /dev/ttyva
>
> But Alt+F9, Alt+F10, Alt+F11 only cause the machine to beep
>
> Possible to use /dev/ttyv9 for output device in FreeBSD? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Best regards

try 'man ttys' and edit your /etc/ttys.

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