From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 4 02:18:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04566 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 02:18:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04443 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 02:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA07142; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 02:17:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 02:17:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Daniel Keller cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: FW: virtual terminals, console, and X In-Reply-To: <000101bda6b9$a057a160$653d9bce@g6200> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Daniel Keller wrote: > I am installing XFree86 on my system (FBSD 2.2.5) and I am having some > trouble getting all the virtual terminals set up. I would like to have ttyv9 > be the X server, ttyva be the output from X, and ttyvb be the output to the > system console. I have created all the necessary virtual terminals and made > /dev/console link to /dev/ttyvb (I assume this is the best want to do this > but I am not sure). NO. Remove `console' then remake it with MAKEDEV. > 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. > 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