From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 14:45:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA11756 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 14:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boner.mrami.com (mramirez.sy.yale.edu [130.132.57.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA11747 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 14:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mrami@localhost) by boner.mrami.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA13642; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 17:43:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 17:43:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez To: Brett Glass cc: Michael Smith , jbarrm@panix.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Console messages In-Reply-To: <9603168296.AA829677573@ccgate.infoworld.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Brett Glass wrote: > > Don't do that - you can't switch to a vty that isn't open 8) (for > > obvious reasons...) > > Do you mean to say that one can't disable logins on a vty and use it as a > status display (as one can do with any other tty)? Why not? As long as a process has it open (any process; not necessarily getty) you can switch to it. Marc. -- But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. -- Matthew 5:37 (basis for using binary number system in modern computer coding theory)