Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:11:47 -0500 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Starting a program at boot time on virtual terminal Message-ID: <20030514171147.72df7111.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca>
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Hi all, What I'd like to do is start a program on one of my virtual terminals when my FreeBSD 4.8 machine boots up. By 'program' I mean a program besides xdm or getty, actually. The man page implies it is possible, but how specifically can I do this? When I try putting anything besides getty or xdm or none in /etc/ttys, I get this message: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv7, sleeping 30 secs I take it the program I start has to have some provision for logging in. I tried starting it with 'su', with no luck. I can't think of any other way to specify that a command be run on a virtual terminal by a given user on startup. Hoping someone here can give me a hint. TIA -Chris
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