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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:09:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        angelayu <angelayu@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ttyv
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980908110611.12509A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9809081637070.6268-100000@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>

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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, angelayu wrote:

> >If you want more than three virtual consoles you've to edit /etc/ttys and
> >add lines like
> 
> >ttyv3   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
> 
> 
> However, after i reboot, i got those messages:
> 
> getty[173]: open /dev/ttyv5: no such file or directory
> getty[172]: open /dev/ttyv4: no such file or directory

Sorry, I forgot to mention that you've to create the device entries in
`/dev' for the new consoles. Please enter:

cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV ttyv4
sh MAKEDEV ttyv5
sh MAKEDEV ttyv6

Konrad Heuer

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