From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 25 14:35:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-169-54.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.169.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBF737B404 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.254.205] (cerberus [192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3PLYod11787 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:34:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200204252013.g3PKDUt64600@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200204252013.g3PKDUt64600@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:35:45 -0700 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rich Morin Subject: Re: docs/37465: Handbook needs new section Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Alternate Consoles > >The key combinations ALT-F1 through ALT-F6 give you simultaneous >parallel channels of access to the sytem, much as though you could seat >yourself at any one of six different keyboard-monitor sets, each >with its own communication path to FreeBSD. This can be useful >for simultaneously editing a file and observing the effects of >executing it or for examing the messages in stderr without disturbing >your main channel of communication with the system. I have a related question which may be OT for this list, but then again, maybe the answer could go into the proposed section (:-). On the sparse occasions when I use the server's own keyboard and monitor, I am continuously annoyed by system error messages. Hitting ALT-F[1-6] does nothing to eliminate these, so I generally remove myself to my own desktop machine and do my administration from there. Is there a way to tell the system error messages to go only to the ALT-F1 screen? -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message