Re: Unable to switch to tty5

[Gerald <e9026078@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since I've spent some time lately in console mode due to some problems
> with X, I've noticed something strange: I cannot switch to tty5.
> I can switch to tty1 to 4, and 6 (7 when in X), but not 5.
>
> frederik@maui:~$ ps aux|grep tty5
> root       298  0.0  0.1  1180  480 tty5     S    Nov07   0:00 /sbin/getty
> 38400 tty5
>
> Is this normal behaviour?
>
> TIA,
>
> Frederik
>
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HI!

you have to allow the tty<X> -access for the runlevels you are working in.
the stuff can be found in /etc/inittab (quoted below).

-->
# Format:
#  <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:234:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:234: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
-->

have a nice day,

    Gerald.