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From: root@spdyne.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: System Crash
Message-ID: <1700004@spdyne>
Date: 1 Jan 89 03:04:00 GMT
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Nf-From: spdyne.UUCP!root    Dec 31 21:04:00 1988


>> 
>> 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,  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
>                     John


    Ok, So I executed `mknod cons4 c 5 4' Added a getty into the /etc/inittab
and guess what? I got a bunch of errors on the console...about not
being able to open it......

    Do I have to bring the System down or what?

        -- Chert Pellett