Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 18:03:17 -0400 From: Sys Admin <abeaupre@chemcomp.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, beaupran@iro.umontreal.ca Subject: Re: Display the time on ttyv7 Message-ID: <39231725.81D4FA31@chemcomp.com> References: <3922C8EA.11CBC702@chemcomp.com> <20000517194534.D21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
> Sys Admin wrote:
>
> > In a rather naive attempt, I tried to make a handy clock always
> > available on ttyv7. I've put the following line in /etc/ttys:
> >
> > ttyv7 "/usr/gamges/grdc" cons25 on secure
> ^^^^^^
>
> > It did not work. The tty was simply not accessible, giving me a nice
> > -beep!- when I tried Alt-F8.
>
> If that typo was present in /etc/ttys I'm not surprised. :-)
He... It was not. :)
> OTOH, I've just tried it myself and it looks as if the terminal isn't > being opened
> on FDs 0, 1 and 2. I think getty does that itself. (You did send
> SIGHUP to init, didn't you? I don't think it would work anyway.)
Yep. Not working. It's really the getty job to do this, as I understand
this...
> If you can't get it to work, try the attached program, which can
> run a specified program on a specified tty (e.g. 'runontty ttyv7
> /usr/games/grdc' could go in /etc/rc.local). This has the
> disadvantage that the clock won't get restarted if it dies, as it > would with
> /etc/ttys, but you can't have everything. You could always run a
> cronjob to restart it if it dies, but I don't see why it would die
> anyway. Another method would be to write a wrapper around grdc which
> opened the TTY appropriately.
Thanks! But, on the first look, it's not working very well
("iotctl(TIOSCTTY): Operation not permitted"), but this is probably do
to the fact that I run this thing in securelevel 3. (!)
Anyways, thanks for the advice. Right now, I'm logging in a terminal and
exec the prog at boot time.
CU
A.
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