From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 12: 3:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB5D37B402 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:03:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a006.otenet.gr [212.205.215.6]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g21K3VfA022386; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:03:35 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g21BXqM00625; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:33:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:33:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: stan Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: vidcontrol -s # does not work in rc script Message-ID: <20020301113352.GB376@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020227145609.GB19056@teddy.fas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020227145609.GB19056@teddy.fas.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-02-27 09:56, stan wrote: > I'm trying to do soemthing that I thought would be simple, but it is not > working. > > I have created a simple shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that does this: > > vidcontrol -s 4 > > When the system boots. Try redirecting vidcontrol's stdin/stdout to a terminal :P vidcontrol -s 4 < /dev/ttyv0 Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message