From owner-freebsd-small Sat Jun 13 12:41:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27696 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles301.castles.com [208.214.167.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27688 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00571; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806131836.LAA00571@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Ekaterina N. Ivannikova" cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netstat is not working In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:05:16 +0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:36:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Another question: > > > Is there any way of using multiple virtual consoles without overhead of > > > getty, login & Co. short of writing one's one getty ? > > > > Sure; just start a shell pointed at the correct vty directly. You can > > only switch to a vty that has something running on it, but you don't > > need to be using getty, login or even init. > > > I'd hate to sound like an imbecille but still: _how_ ? Write a small program that opens the vty, makes it it's controlling terminal, points stdin, stdout and stderr at it, and then execs $SHELL. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message