From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16924 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Jul 2003 15:57:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26244 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2003 15:57:07 -0000 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Attribution: anupam References: <874r1v8p09.fsf@speakeasy.net> <20030709075035.GA1099@Dimosys.pandora.be> <87d6gjtppt.fsf@speakeasy.net> <20030709084420.GE1099@Dimosys.pandora.be> From: Anupam Kapoor X-Face: #&PJXI(wRWLNfY"ja`j-UdQ0qmNrnHaXIz.`I6{DYk5=axNLB.HNzI3=]4>j9+N|z:H'Fhc CX_g;6?lb8~r&NOvWm"='kN#*jScukS+s|Z4>i>$vFMK3OF%1?.GS%\FaBYO}}/vD$oC?Q Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:54:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20030709084420.GE1099@Dimosys.pandora.be> (Sven Vermeulen's message of "Wed, 9 Jul 2003 10:44:20 +0200") Message-ID: <8765mbt4sk.fsf@speakeasy.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] limiting the number of virtual consoles in user mode linux X-Archives-Salt: 046b1c39-93d2-47a9-a6b8-eac690747018 X-Archives-Hash: a6c32e3cc61af1e8c20118787194942e Sven Vermeulen writes: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:22:38PM -0700, Anupam Kapoor wrote: > [...] >> i am not sure i understand how it is related to spawning multiple >> consoles during system boot. > > I'm not sure, but I believe that the following commands will create the vc's > (which is not what you want): > > echo -ne "\033(K" > /dev/vc/${x} > or > echo -ne "\033(K" > /dev/tty${x} > in /etc/init.d/consolefont (in case you don't have consolechars) > > By delimiting ${x} to the number of VC's you want you make sure that the > kernel only starts that number of xterms when loading the UML... i think the consoles are created by devfsd, with : MAKEDEV /dev/vc/XXX c 4 .... or some such. i think 'echo' does not create any devices. kind regards anupam > > Wkr, > Sven Vermeulen > > -- > Thanks to DRM, you know that something has been built in environment of > unspecified degree of security, from source you cannot check, written by > programmers you don't know, released after passing QA of unknown quality and > which is released under a license that disclaims any responsibility... -- ...mathematicians do it smoothly and continuously or discretely in groups and in fields. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list