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From: tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Vtlmgr/newvt usage?
Keywords: vtlmgr newvt sh
Message-ID: <26955ee0-618.2comp.unix.i386-1@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 7 Jul 90 06:00:12 GMT
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>Author: [Kenneth Herron] (*Masked*@ms.uky.edu)
>Date: Fri Jun 29 19:19:41 1990
>Lines: 16 Keyw: vtlmgr newvt sh
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>I'm running System V/386 3.2, using vtlmgr and newvt to get multiple
>sessions on the console.  Both of these programs start /bin/sh on the
>new screens.  My default shell is ksh, and my SHELL variable is set to ksh,
>but the programs evidently ignore these settings.  Sh does not try to run
>a startup file unless it detects that it's a login shell, of course.

I have fount that in general, the best thing to do is to
change the console over to "getty" from "vtgetty", then add new
/etc/inittab entries for /dev/vt01 etc. with getty's on em.


You wont have to newvt at all.

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