From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 16: 1:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dc.numbersusa.com (mail.whetstonelogic.com [205.252.46.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E7714DF1 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@whetstonelogic.com) Received: from work.drapple.com (ts002d08.sal-or.concentric.net [207.155.239.68]) by dc.numbersusa.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA23890; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:01:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:01:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Hartley To: Jeremy Campbell , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Virtual terminals Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try this: (after creating the virtual terminal in /dev first of course) top > /dev/ttyv4 & Then you can alt-F5 to it. If you are wanting it to use alt-F9, that would be /dev/ttyv8. The & sign is so you get your terminal window back. Otherwise it would wait for top to terminate. To create the virtual terminals: cd /dev sh ./MAKEDEV vty5 or (for your alt-F9 scenario) sh ./MAKEDEV vty8 I hope this helps. Mark. On 12-Oct-99 Jeremy Campbell wrote: > ...To add to this question, is it possible to have a program like Top on one > of the TTYs? So that you can hit like alt-f9 and it go to a screen with > top? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of mph > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 2:35 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Virtual terminals > > > Hi, > > Does someone know what programs you can put in the /etc/ttys? > > I wanted to have a dedicated server (quake2) starting there as default. > The program started but the display never initialized. > > Martin P. Hansen > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message