Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:23:33 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, taob@io.org, jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cons25 being default terminal mode... Can that be changed? Message-ID: <199510190253.MAA13919@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <m0t5iNd-000r3sC@main.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Oct 18, 95 04:58:40 pm
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Scott Blachowicz stands accused of saying: > Hmmm...how do you get it to default to 50 line mode? I thought it came up > with 25 lines by default (so I've got this loop in my /etc/rc.local that > goes thru my vt's setting them to 50 - there's gotta be an easier way - > maybe the getty initialization process would send some magic strings from > the termcap that would take care of it for me?). I'm fairly new to FreeBSD > and have 2.0.5R installed. You can do this a number of ways; one I used was to replace the call to /usr/libexec/getty in /etc/tyys with one to a wrapper that set the video modes and then exec'd getty. > Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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