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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:54:47 +0200
From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: Wayne M Barnes <stabilizer@klentaq.com>
Subject: Re: ttyv0 change remotely
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* Wayne M Barnes <stabilizer@klentaq.com> [2002-09-05 14:36 -0500]:
>     I don't want people in the office where the console is located to see
> the console messages, unless they actually go over there to hit Alt-F1,
> which they don't necessarily know how to do.
> 
>     Is there a way for me to remotely Alt-F3 to change the
> console to ttyv2 ?  I might do this at remote reboot time,
> and/or any time X is not running and no one is logged in at
> the console.

vidcontrol -s 3 < /dev/ttyv1

see man vidcontrol

Nicolas

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