Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:59:36 +0200 (MEST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: lars.falch@dbergstrom.dk Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virtual consoles? Message-ID: <199705211059.MAA14805@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.864212653.lars.falch@schmock.dbergstrom.dk> from "lars.falch@dbergstrom.dk" at "May 21, 97 11:02:36 am"
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> > > add lines to /etc/ttys like: > > # Virtual terminals > > ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > > ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > > ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > > ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > > ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > > ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > > ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure > > Okey, and the last one, which is set to off, is that where the > X server is running? yep. > > > cd /dev > > ./MAKEDEV vty8 > vty8 means 'make them all 0-7' You can overwrite the existing ones without doing harm to anything. > So I should make a device for each of the ones that doesn't > already exist? > > > kill -HUP 1 > > And what does this do? Send the Hangup signal to the init process (PID 1) causing init to re-read /etc/ttys and executing getty processes accordingly. > > > > Thanks, > Lars > > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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