From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 10:58:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FD814C89 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:58:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id NAA23889; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 13:59:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907021759.NAA23889@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Virtual consoles (ttyv) In-Reply-To: from "Korvus [PINE]" at "Jul 2, 99 10:24:34 am" To: korvus@tasam.com (Korvus [PINE]) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 13:59:48 -0400 (EDT) Cc: malaclypse@diogenes.ionet.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Korvus [PINE] wrote, > Edit /etc/ttys to include lines for the new terminals (you can go 0-9 > (F1-F10) I believe) -- just duplicate the existing ones with different > names, then go into /dev and run mknod for the new terminals. The format > is: > mknod ttyv[x] c 12 [x] > > so to make /dev/ttyv4, type: > mknod ttyv4 c 12 4 > > After you do this, reboot (there may be a better way -- someone educate me > if there is) and when your system comes up the new terminals should be > usable. As root, # kill -HUP 1 That is, send a hangup signal (HUP) to the init process (which is _always_ PID 1). This causes init to re-read the /etc/ttys file. This eleminates the need to reboot. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message