Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wa3wbu!john From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: System Crash Summary: I beleive this is documented Keywords: crash layers Message-ID: <184@wa3wbu.UUCP> Date: 28 Dec 88 11:50:53 GMT References: <249@cosi.UUCP> Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA Lines: 50 In article <249@cosi.UUCP>, bill@cosi.UUCP (Bill Michaelson) writes: > I'm running S/386 3.0e. As a UNIX novice, I thought I would try out shell > layers the other day. shl worked OK from the system console(s), but I thought > that this was uninteresting since I have virtual consoles there anyway. So > I tried it from a tty port. CRASH! System mumbled something about dumping > stuff, diddled the disk awhile, then froze. I had to hit the red button on th > front of the box. Has this happened to anyone else? I just posted a request also to know about this dump file. Mine was RFI-induced. :-) I beleive that in the manual it says that while virtual consoles are un-available to remote terminals, shell layers are. > > Also - I recall seeing something about support for more than 4 virtual > consoles in 3.0e. Does anyone know what I have to do to get, say, 10 > consoles? > The first thing I did when I installed 3.0e was to set it up for 10 virtual consoles like my V/AT had. Everything is already configured and you only need to do a "mknod" for each new device and add entries to /etc/inittab. The way uport has the gettys labelled for each virtual console, you might also want to get fancy and add a gettydef entry for each new virtual console you create. Otherwise, you can simple borrow one of the existing ones. Here are my /dev entries for my virtual consoles: crw--w--w- 1 root sys 5, 1 Dec 28 06:49 cons1 crw--w--w- 1 root sys 5, 2 Dec 27 21:49 cons2 crw--w--w- 1 root sys 5, 3 Dec 27 21:49 cons3 crw--w--w- 1 root sys 5, 4 Dec 27 21:49 cons4 crw--w--w- 1 root sys 5, 5 Dec 27 21:49 cons5 crw--w--w- 1 root sys 5, 6 Dec 27 21:49 cons6 crw--w--w- 1 root sys 5, 7 Dec 27 21:49 cons7 crw--w--w- 1 root sys 5, 8 Dec 27 21:49 cons8 crw--w--w- 1 root sys 5, 9 Dec 27 22:23 cons9 crw--w--w- 3 root sys 5, 0 Dec 28 06:49 console Hope this helps you out. John -- John Gayman, WA3WBU | UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john 1869 Valley Rd. | ARPA: john@wa3wbu.uu.net Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P