From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 3:35:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [208.140.99.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686A137B405 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 03:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010372pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.67]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id GAA86994 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 06:34:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sumter.awod.com: User stanb [pcp01010372pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net] popped 66 seconds ago Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16fftO-0008Bg-00 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 06:35:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 06:35:34 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: /etc/ttys ? Question Message-ID: <20020226113534.GA31428@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 06:30:25 up 2 days, 6:25, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.12, 0.04 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to do something on FreeBSD, that I have done easily on Linux, and I'm runing inot a bit of dificulty. What I want to do si have a FreeBSD machine start up a task on boot, that needs to _display only_ to a dedicated virtual terminal. That virtual terminal should not be runing a getty, and should ignore keyboard input. I am planing on ahving a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start this task (it's a perl script), and redirect it's output to a specific virtual terminal. I want to be able to switch to and from this virtual terminal via the sandard {ALT Fkey} sequence. I suspect that the magic here lies in /etc/ttys, but I have tried several different things thee withou success. Can anyone point me to som documentation on how to do this? Or offer advice? Oh, and the task nneds to be su'd to a spefic suer, but I know how to do that in the rc script, so I don;t think that affects the discussion here. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message