From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 25 7:14:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [208.140.99.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B04637B59E for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:14:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010372pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.67]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id KAA36559 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:13:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sumter.awod.com: User stanb [pcp01010372pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net] popped 84 seconds ago Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16fMq4-0000Y3-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:14:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:14:52 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: A couple of virtual terminal questions Message-ID: <20020225151452.GA2028@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 10:05:12 up 1 day, 10:00, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to do something on FreeBSD, that I have done easily on Linux, and I'm runing inot a bit of dificulty. What I want to do si have a FreeBSD machine start up a task on boot, that needs to _display only_ to a dedicated virtual terminal. That virtual terminal should not be runing a getty, and should ignore keyboard input. I am planing on ahving a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start this task (it's a perl script), and redirect it's output to a specific virtual terminal. I want to be able to switch to and from this virtual terminal via the sandard {ALT Fkey} sequence. I suspect that the magic here lies in /etc/ttys, but I have tried several different things thee withou success. Can anyone point me to som documentation on how to do this? Or offer advice? Oh, and the task nneds to be su'd to a spefic suer, but I know how to do that in the rc script, so I don;t think that affects the discussion here. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message