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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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Subject: Re: Virtual consoles?
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.864212653.lars.falch@schmock.dbergstrom.dk> from "lars.falch@dbergstrom.dk" at "May 21, 97 11:02:36 am"
To: lars.falch@dbergstrom.dk
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:59:36 +0200 (MEST)
Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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> 
> > add lines to /etc/ttys like:
> > # Virtual terminals
> > ttyv1   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on secure
> > ttyv2   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on secure
> > ttyv3   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on secure
> > ttyv4   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on secure
> > ttyv5   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on secure
> > ttyv6   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
> > ttyv7   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  off secure    
> 
> Okey, and the last one, which is set to off, is that where the 
> X server is running?

yep.

> 
> > cd /dev
> > ./MAKEDEV vty8
> 

vty8 means 'make them all 0-7' You can overwrite the existing ones
without doing harm to anything.


> So I should make a device for each of the ones that doesn't 
> already exist?
> 
> > kill -HUP 1
> 
> And what does this do?

Send the Hangup signal to the init process (PID 1) causing init to
re-read /etc/ttys and executing getty processes accordingly.

> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Lars
> 
> 

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de