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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!server1.nw.ixe.net!server1.adam.ixe.net!wirehub!news.euro.net!xs4all!news.unisource.nl!halley.pi.net!news 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 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32C13C87.7BC8@pobox.com> References: <59pgnm$b0p@usenet78.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 145.220.222.33 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) To: George Sladic <gsladic@no.such.domain> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33120 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 compuserve: 100120,3121