Re: missing consoles

[Philippe Marzouk <pmarzouk@wanadoo.fr>]

Le dim, 14 jan 2001 23:18:12, Brendon a écrit :
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > for some reason i can only use one console. when i <alt> <ctrl>
> <F=>2> i
> > > get a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
> > >
> > > only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5).
> anyone
> > > know a solution?
> >
> > Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc/inittab file? If
> > not, I think that may be the problem. But then, I'm no expert.
> >
> > 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

Look at the lines above :

'6' is simply an ID for the line

'23' means that the lines are executed only on the runlevels 2 and 3 so if
you want your virtual consoles at runlevel 5 you had it and then do a
'killall -HUP init'

do a 'man inittab' for more.

Philippe
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Philippe Marzouk.
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