[olug] tty3 & 4

roger schmeits schmeits at clarksoncollege.edu
Tue Jul 16 20:43:29 UTC 2002


works perfect. thanks.

Roger

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 15:09, David Walker wrote:
> Edit your inittab
> #4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> #5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> 4:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/named/named.run > /dev/tty3
> 5:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages > /dev/tty4
> init q
> kill "pid of mingetty for tty3"
> kill "pid of mingetty for tty4"
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 16 July 2002 02:38 pm, roger schmeits wrote:
> > I would like to devote ctrl-alt-F3 to tail -f /var/named/named.run
> >
> > and ctrl-alt-F4 to tail -f /var/log/messages.  How does one do this?
> >
> > Would like it to be there upon reboots, etc.
> >
> > And while where on the subject can a person change the standard 80 x 25
> > character mode so that is bigger? Kinda silly on a 19" monitor.  Be nice
> > to dial it out if possible.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Roger
> >
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