From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 07:15:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17814 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 07:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA17720 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 07:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.164]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Thu, 09 Jul 1998 16:12:32 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01930; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:07:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [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: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 16:07:52 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Doug White Subject: Re: FW: virtual terminals, console, and X Cc: FreeBSD Questions List , Daniel Keller Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Jul-98 Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Daniel Keller wrote: >> X starts automatically on ttyv9, so that is not a problem. The question >> is how can I make ttyva and ttyvb accessible without a login prompt? I >> have tried changing the line in ttys from: "ttyvb "getty Pc" cons25 on >> secure" to "ttyvb none cons25 on secure" but when I do this I can's >> access the terminal with F12 anymore. > > Of course not, you disabled it. What are you going to do with a terminal > without a getty, anyway? They are completely useless. Some daemons (isdnd) can be configured to output on ttyv. In some situations this can be very usefull. Daniel, just switch "on" to "off" in /etc/ttys for the appropriate ttyv-line: ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure Then the command (getty) will not be started on that line. Malte. > >> one other question I have about terminals is how can I have a different >> prompt for users who are logged in from another computer, is there a >> certain file that is executed when a remote user logs in? Thanks, any >> suggestions would be appreciated, Daniel > > Edit their ~/.cshrc or ~/.profile, for CSH- and SH- based shells, > respectivley. Se the shell's manpage for how to change the prompt. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 09-Jul-98 Time: 16:01:33 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message