From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 0:40: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yoda.dccnet.com (mail.deltacable.com [207.230.239.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF6237BEBB for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 00:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kg@versys.net) Received: from versys.net (unverified [209.5.131.193]) by yoda.dccnet.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.6) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 May 2000 00:33:06 -0700 Message-ID: <3911292E.E98CA5CE@versys.net> Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 00:39:26 -0700 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vasu@inorbit.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help need on consoles References: <000504030657HH.28337@weba7.iname.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG vasu@inorbit.com wrote: > > Hello FreeBSD'r > > Once again I need some help on FreeBSD. I m fimiliar > with BSDI's BSD and so I have questions due to differnce > in the two.. > > In BSDI .. we were able to get 8 console screens... > (Alt+f1, .. Alt+f8) stuff.. but in freebsd we get > only 3 such screens.. In BSDI .. we used to just > modify the /etc/ttys file to increase or decrease this > number but I find this file to be different in freebsd. This should help. I currently have 8 (ttyv[0-7]). # If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for the root password # when going to single-user mode. console none unknown off secure # ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure -- Regards, Kevin G. Eliuk Technician | VerSys Communications Ltd. | http://www.versys.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message