From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 02:43:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA15808 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 02:43:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA15795 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 02:43:54 -0800 (PST) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id FAA08395; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 05:43:28 -0500 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id FAA01262; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 05:44:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 05:44:51 -0500 (EST) To: Brian Queen cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virtual consoles In-Reply-To: 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, 26 Mar 1996, Brian Queen wrote: > Does freeBSD have virtual consoles? Yes. You can use alt-F1 to alt-F3 to access them. If you need more, you have to edit /etc/ttys and edit the line (like) ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure Specifically, you want to cange the "off" to "on". To add more vtys, you have to cd /dev ./MAKEDEV vty7 And then you have to add entries into /etc/ttys similiar to ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure Read also the relevent section of the handbook, which should explain it all more clearly. -- tIM...HOEk