From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 3 14:18:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B489214ED0 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:18:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port9.annex8.radix.net (port9.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.9]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA04777; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:17:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:17:47 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal To: "Paul T. Root" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting program on specific virtual console In-Reply-To: <199903032104.PAA29467@iaces.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jeez man, I knew that! what was I thinking. On a similar note, is there a way to do the same from a script after boot? Like a script that works like `man` but runs man on another tty? That way you can read a man page while using the program without loging in twice. Thanks! ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Patrick Seal said: > > On startup, I'd like a program (rc5des) to start on ttyv4 and a few other > > programs (tail -f) and others. Is there a way to do this other than > > manually switching consoles? > > /etc/ttys > > > -- > I've seen soaps that leave a better film than that. --The Muppet Movie > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message