From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 10 16:37:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA03745 for current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 16:37:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from veda.is (root@ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA03740 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 16:36:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.7.4/8.7.3) id AAA12661; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:35:51 GMT Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:35:51 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199603110035.AAA12661@veda.is> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.DEv.COM Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changes to /etc/ttys Newsgroups: list.freebsd.current References: <199603071710.JAA07682@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I'm submitting a patch for /etc/ttys to make ttyv0 the default console of >> which no getty process runs on. ttyv[1-3] are now the default getty logins. >Why would you want to do this? This would mean that by default no login >prompt would appear after a boot, something that I am sure would generate >_lots_ of questions on the mailing list from users who did not know about >it. There used to be a syscons utility to change between virtual consoles. This functionality seems to no longer exist in vidcontrol or kbdcontrol, though there might some magic sequence that can be echoed to produce the same result (nope, not found that either). Well... there are ioctl's that can be used to change virtual consoles, so such a utility could be written or incorporated into vidcontrol, and somehow invoked immediately after entering multiuser mode. What is the normal method of invoking a command immediately after /etc/rc has finished executing? >What gain is there from doing this? output-only console, but then keyboard input would have to be prevented altogether, which is not currently done in this case. -- Adam David