Re: Terminals

2013-05-08 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/13 05:30, Bob Proulx wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: >> But with some work you MIGHT be able to get it to start as a >> getty (a 'getty' is the program that init starts on the virtual >> console and which accepts your username/password before st

Re: Terminals

2013-04-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Lars Nooden wrote: > Another option is "cu", I'm not sure how it compares to minicom directly, > but I find it useful. A flashback to 1980/1990... An advantage of cu is that it integrates perfectly with uucp. If you have uucp installed, configured and running then it might be using the serial

Re: Terminals

2013-04-17 Thread Lars Nooden
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: [snip] > # apt-get install minicom [snip] > Then just leave it running forever. It will always be there when you > come back to that vt with Alt-F4. [snip] Another option is "cu", I'm not sure how it compares to minicom directly, but I find it useful.

Re: Terminals

2013-04-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Darac Marjal wrote: > ja...@jatos.co.uk wrote: > > Firstly need to know the name of the feature that allows me to > > access /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1 etc and switch between them by press > > alt+F1, alt+F2 and so on. > > These are "Virtual Terminals" or "Virtual Consoles". They are "Virtual" > in the

Re: Terminals

2013-04-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:13:22AM +, ja...@jatos.co.uk wrote: > Hi > > Firstly need to know the name of the feature that allows me to access > /dev/tty0, /dev/tty1 etc and switch between them by press alt+F1, alt+F2 and > so on. These are "Virtual Terminals" or "Virtual Consoles". They are

Re: terminals - tty

2001-11-21 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 15:37, madhombre wrote: > I was wondering if there was anyway of running commands on different > ternimals on startup > > I use my debian laptop to as a client and also to monitor my 2 > servers, can I auto ssh into the servers on tty2 and tty3, maybe even > do shutdown comm

Re: Terminals not closing?

2001-10-26 Thread Charles Baker
--- Ian Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this > problem, when I exit > an rxvt or Eterm (using exit, or Ctrl-D), the > terminal just hangs, bash > becomes defunct but the terminal process doesn't > die. > > gnome-terminal and xterm still exits properly

Re: # terminals

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 02:55:02PM +0100, Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 14:33, Hans Gubitz wrote: > > How can I change the number of terminals in textmode? > > If you mean the number of virtual consoles available via alt-f1 etc, > then edit /etc/inittab. ...throug

Re: # terminals

2001-09-26 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 14:33, Hans Gubitz wrote: > How can I change the number of terminals in textmode? If you mean the number of virtual consoles available via alt-f1 etc, then edit /etc/inittab. Ross Burton

Re: # terminals

2001-09-26 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Hans Gubitz wrote: > How can I change the number of terminals in textmode? Edit /etc/inittab (see man inittab) Martin

Re: Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: S Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely > visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed > Debian 2.2. I've got the monitor buttons for brightness and contrast > at maximum ... For your next monitor, make

Re: Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > S Taylor wrote: > >Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely > >visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed > >Where can I find "HOWTOs to configure this 'terminal', a magitronic

Re: Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
S Taylor wrote: >Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely >visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed >Debian 2.2. I've got the monitor buttons for brightness and contrast >at maximum, setterm=bold within Linux, so I can see. And X allo

Re: terminals

2000-01-19 Thread Joe Block
Mike Werner wrote: > What you should do is add lines like these - one line for each tty that > you want. For example to add one more tty you would add the line: > 7:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty7 > and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think* > you have to reboot - I

Re: terminals

2000-01-16 Thread Mike Werner
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:26:45AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You missed a few letters the command is '/sbin/telinit q'. > > At 17:12 15.1.2000 -0500, you wrote: > >> and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think* > >> you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that

Re: terminals

2000-01-15 Thread ulla . russell
You missed a few letters the command is '/sbin/telinit q'. At 17:12 15.1.2000 -0500, you wrote: >> and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think* >> you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one. But this should at > >I think you can just 'init q' and it will re-rea

Re: terminals

2000-01-15 Thread iehrenwald
> and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think* > you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one. But this should at I think you can just 'init q' and it will re-read the inittab. --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: terminals

2000-01-15 Thread Mike Werner
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 10:37:58PM +0100, erasmo perez wrote: > hello > > i remember some time having seen here the answer to how is it possible > to have more than 6 terminals (tty), but i have forgotten the tip > > would someone be so kind to remind this fool this answer ? Go into your /etc/in