Re: auto login virtual terminal

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@weierophinney.net>]

-- Brooks R. Robinson <brooks.robinson@rides.com> wrote
(on Tuesday, 18 February 2003, 11:09 AM -0600):
> Greetings,
> 	When I do some programming, I like to login to several virtual terminals,
> so I can compile without exiting nano, read a man page, view other code,
> etc.  Is there a somewhat safe way to login to several vt's at once from say
> a script?

You might look into 'screen' -- when in a screen session, you can create
a new screen (i.e. virtual terminal) with a 'Ctrl-A c', move back and
forth between open screens, etc.

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net