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From: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding virtual terminals problem
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 14:39:03 +0000
Organization: NederWare
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To: George Sladic <gsladic@no.such.domain>
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George Sladic wrote:

> I'm trying to add a fifth virtual terminal under freebsd 2.1.5 and am having
> problems getting it to work.
> 
> I've added the appropriate lines in /etc/ttys and do a "kill -1 1" to re-read
> the file but get an error message saying "no such device" when I try access
> the new ttyv4.  In /dev there are ttyv0 ttyv1 ttyv2 and ttyv3 but no ttyv4.
> When I try to MAKEDEV ttyv4, I get an error message saying "no such device".

use

	MAKEDEV vtyNN

where NN the number of devices you want. So:

	MAKEDEV vty05

to get all new temrinal.
-- 
Groetjes,

Berend. (-:
email: berend@pobox.com
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