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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2512 comp.os.linux.misc:16160 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!gatech!prism!prism!not-for-mail From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) Date: 3 Jun 1994 10:11:42 -0400 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 26 Sender: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu Message-ID: <2sndmu$bnk@acmez.gatech.edu> References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <2smc4m$daj@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: acmez.gatech.edu dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes: >: How do you use virtual consoles on FreeBSD? >Compile with SYSCONS and RTFM. Actually, what the FM doesn't mention is that, unlike Linux consoles, you can't switch to a FreeBSD console unless it is "open", and the only way to make a console open is to make it someone's controlling tty. I suggest you (Alex) edit /etc/ttys and enable some of the gettys on the higher console numbers. This confused me as well; the source was ever so much more helpful than the manual. I think people used to Linux have a worse time than those not used to UNIX at all; we assume so many things that were true under Linux but aren't under *BSD. And don't forget to compile in some of the K00L screensavers. Nothing more amusing to me than a little ASCII snake made of the letters "FreeBSD" working its way around my screen. -- _g, '96 --->>>>>>>>>> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu <<<<<<<<<--- CompSci ,g_ W@@@W__ |-\ ^ | disclaimer: <---> "Bow before ZOD!" __W@@@W W@@@@**~~~' ro|-<ert s/_\ nders | who am I??? ^ from Superman '~~~**@@@@W `*MV' hi,ocie! |-/ad! / \ss!! | ooga ooga!! | II (cool)! `VW*'