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Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: tty's
  • From: hekate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Johnson)
  • Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:39:56 -0700 (PDT)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.00.9808071239110.3388-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Um, just curious, but what would one need so many terms for? I'm not being
facetious.

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Hubert Mantel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Chris aka manticora wrote:
>
> > Thank you very much,I just editted it
> > and now I can go from tty1->tty11, and I have tty12 on xwindows
> >
> > is there any way I can go HIGHER?
>
> Yes. Add the line
>
> 13:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty13
>
> to your /etc/inittab (don't forget the "init q" afterwards) and you can
> switch to the 13th tty with <right-alt><F1>. I think this gives the idea.
>
> I think you can go pretty high (up to 64, check devices.txt) using
> additional modifiers. If you do so, please remember to add more nodes to
> /dev (currently there are only 24 tty devices). Also, check your
> /etc/syslogd.conf for a tty to log to.
> -o)
> Hubert /\\
> _\_v

-M

One is most dishonest towards one's God; he is not _permitted_ to sin.

mail: mjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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