On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:27:44PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote:
> hey folks.
>
> i was just wondering about virtual terms -- is there an easy way to change
> how many there are? debian seems to default at 6 running getty, and X
> opens up 7. presumably i can use as many as 12? how does this work?
> is it as simple as running getty from init, or is there a kernel definition
> somewhere that specifies how many i can have, or a little of both?
>
> is there some documentation on the subject somewhere?
>
Edit /etc/inittab
Continue adding lines, just change the two outside numbers.
# Format:
# <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
To continue with tty9 -
9:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty9
See "man inittab"
hth,
kent
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