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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!usc!news.cerf.net!newsserver.sdsc.edu!newshub.csu.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!Nuxi.com!not-for-mail From: obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Virtual Consoles Date: 26 Feb 1996 10:23:47 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4gs1nj$dcq@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4g108j$6bi@online.dct.com> <yfgvil5klrk.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <31293BDC.41C67EA6@progroup.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu : : I had to edit /dev/MAKEDEV and change the line sh MAKEDEV vty4 to : sh MAKEDEV vty12 to get it to make the devices. I tried editing /etc/tty : first, but that did not work. My f12 is set aside for X and I can switch from Why not just run MAKEDEV with vty12 as an argument? -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)