From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 7 23:30:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA09192 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freight.msn.bc.ca (pc-21656.bc.rogers.wave.ca [24.112.126.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA09181 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:30:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bpepa@freight.msn.bc.ca) Received: from localhost (bpepa@localhost) by freight.msn.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA01124 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bpepa@freight.msn.bc.ca) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:33:16 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Pepa To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Console Login Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Everyone; I have 2 dumb terminals hooked up to my FreeBSD 2.2.5. Is their a way so when the terminals are turned on, they are already logged in and in a shell without having to login? This may sound goofy, but I've been leaving my terminal on all night (logged in as myself) and have a script that will write a message to myself (write bpepa d1 < wakeup) executed by cron in the morning, that makes my terminal beep (loudly) as an alarm clock 'till I kill the script. It would be more energy efficent if I put my terminal on a timer to turn on in the morning, but it doesn't work unless I'm logged in. Thanks, Ben