From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 23 2:37:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD1837B916 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 02:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 659E8A831; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:38:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB4E540E; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:38:09 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:38:09 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: Bart Lateur Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many virtual ttys? In-Reply-To: <3904b414.7406636@relay.skynet.be> Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Bart Lateur wrote: > I assume that getty is only necessary for the physical keyboard, not for > external logins. Is that right? Its not needed for pseudo terminals but you need it for physical ones, be that the keyboard or serial terminals. > Oh. I had assumed a mechanism as was used on the Atari ST, where you had > to press one of the special keys (either shift or control, I forgot) > together with the function key. Press shift+F1 and you get F11 (assuming > 10 physical keys). Yes you can do that under FreeBSD. The extra key is shift. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message