From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 17:55:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA14051 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 17:55:18 -0700 Received: from elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (elf.kendall.mdcc.edu [147.70.150.122]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA14045 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 17:55:17 -0700 Received: (from freelist@localhost) by elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA21942; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 20:46:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 20:46:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Don's FList drop" To: Francisco Reyes cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual screen. One last question In-Reply-To: <9508270257.AA23315@i-2000.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Aug 1995, Francisco Reyes wrote: > When I tried to run MAKEDEV by itself nothing happened. > When I tried to run MAKEDEV with the device name (ttyv4?) it > didn't work either. > > What parameter should I send to MAKEDEV after having > changed /etc/ttys? I believe that it's a shell programming restriction, but the virtual terminals aren't created by passing their proper name to MAKEDEV. Instead you need to use MAKEDEV vty#, where # is the number you want. (DON'T use a or b if you decide to make device 11 or 12 - it makes the shell go freaky-freaky, uses up all the swap... it's pretty neat. use vty11 and vt12)