Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 16:07:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Daniel Keller <dkeller@psln.com> Subject: Re: FW: virtual terminals, console, and X Message-ID: <XFMail.980709160752.malte@webmore.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980704021547.12188y-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On 04-Jul-98 Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Daniel Keller wrote: >> X starts automatically on ttyv9, so that is not a problem. The question >> is how can I make ttyva and ttyvb accessible without a login prompt? I >> have tried changing the line in ttys from: "ttyvb "getty Pc" cons25 on >> secure" to "ttyvb none cons25 on secure" but when I do this I can's >> access the terminal with F12 anymore. > > Of course not, you disabled it. What are you going to do with a terminal > without a getty, anyway? They are completely useless. Some daemons (isdnd) can be configured to output on ttyv<n>. In some situations this can be very usefull. Daniel, just switch "on" to "off" in /etc/ttys for the appropriate ttyv-line: ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure Then the command (getty) will not be started on that line. Malte. > >> one other question I have about terminals is how can I have a different >> prompt for users who are logged in from another computer, is there a >> certain file that is executed when a remote user logs in? Thanks, any >> suggestions would be appreciated, Daniel > > Edit their ~/.cshrc or ~/.profile, for CSH- and SH- based shells, > respectivley. Se the shell's manpage for how to change the prompt. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Date: 09-Jul-98 Time: 16:01:33 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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