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From: mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Can't have a /dev/console?
Message-ID: <wXmuMry00Uk1Q9Wm0O@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 89 19:08:39 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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I am on an RT running ACIS Release 3 (4.3BSD).  The machine has a monchrome
display (5151) and an apa16 (6155) attached.  I would like to be able to set up
the machine such that getty is run on both displays, so I can log in twice.
That can be done by turning on the appropriate entries in /etc/ttys.  HOWEVER,
when this is done, the entry made in utmp when a login is done shows ttyap16 as
the tty for a 6155 login and ttymono for a 5151 login.  There seems to be no
readable and writable console on which to log in!  If something gets written to
"/dev/console" under the setup described, the output goes to whichever device
currently has the input focus.

If only the device specified as 'dev/console' in /etc/ttys has getty run on it,
yet there are two displays, the login tty is "/dev/console", even though output
can be directed to either display via an IOCTL or the keyboard key combinations
that does the equivalent operation.

So, the question: is it possible to set up <something> such that when I log
into
a specified device, say the apa16, that the login tty will be /dev/console,
like
it is with only a single display system, yet I can still log into the other
display and have it show up as ttymono?

Thanks,
        Marc Pawliger