From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 4 20:01:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA14473 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA14466 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA06921; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:01:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Joseph Stein cc: impbbs@polbox.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default no. of VTY's (was Re: EXAC for FreeBSD?) In-Reply-To: <199708032138.OAA02811@shasta.wstein.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Joseph Stein wrote: > > You may have to rebuild your kernel to get extra consoles, but I'm sure > > the default is 16. > > Here's a really stupid question... > > The default (at least according to the GENERIC I have that gets updated > with CVSup) is 16. > > There are only 12 F-keys; and it's tedious to get to VTY's 13, 14, 15 and > 16 (use ALT-F12, then press 'Print Screen') > > Why not make the default 12? > > Or am I missing something? I don't know, perhaps its in case someone figures out how to make a vt320, which has an insane number of function keys, a console? 16's also a binary round number where 12 isn't. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo