Re: terminals

[Mike Werner <reznaeous@earthlink.net>]

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/inittab - that's where it's controlled from.  Find the
section that looks like the following:

--- begin quoted section ---
# /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels.
#
# The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
# characters of the device (after "tty").
#
# Format:
#  <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
--- end quoted section ---

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 could be wrong on that one.  But this should at
least point you in the right direction.
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