[gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo

[Rafael Fernández López]

Hi,

I've installed Gentoo in another computer, but this time is just for
programming, emacs (maravellous !!), gcc, gdb, valgrind... you know.

I've no X.org and no graphical support.

For that reason I'd like to know how to make *ALL* terminals console
terminals, because at this time they end at Ctrl + Alt + F6, and Ctrl +
Alt + F7 has no login petition.

I've googled and had no results. I know that something important should be
find in runlevels (my system starts number 3).

Thank you !!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Hi,

hiya

> I've installed Gentoo in another computer, but this time is just for
> programming, emacs (maravellous !!), gcc, gdb, valgrind... you know.

cool :D

> I've no X.org and no graphical support.

I found it really useful to use konqueror, public-key auth for ssh, and sftp:// urls for editing
remotely hosted files (e.g. php scripts).

> For that reason I'd like to know how to make *ALL* terminals console
> terminals, because at this time they end at Ctrl + Alt + F6, and Ctrl +
> Alt + F7 has no login petition.
> I've googled and had no results. I know that something important should be
> find in runlevels (my system starts number 3).

edit /etc/inittab, search for section TERMINALS

may attention ;)

mine is:

# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
c7:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty7 linux
c8:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty8 linux
c9:12345:respawn:/root/mingetty --mprl tty9

The last one is a mprl-patched mingetty. mprl is available at http://www.buanzo.com.ar/eng/ (middle
of the page) or at http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/mprl/

I wrote it because I didn't use X and I used to switch to another console, login locally, then ssh
to a remote host. With this, you can avoid the local login, and just supply something like:

ssh:username@somehost at the Login: prompt of the text console.

If anyone is more interested in the mprl-enhanced mingetty, just let me know and I'll release it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:37:52PM +0200, Penguin Lover Rafael Fern?ndez L?pez squawked:
> For that reason I'd like to know how to make *ALL* terminals console
> terminals, because at this time they end at Ctrl + Alt + F6, and Ctrl +
> Alt + F7 has no login petition.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-7.html

in short, edit /etc/inittab

W
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Re: [gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Thursday 24 August 2006 20:37, Rafael Fernández López wrote:

> For that reason I'd like to know how to make *ALL* terminals console
> terminals, because at this time they end at Ctrl + Alt + F6, and Ctrl
> + Alt + F7 has no login petition.
>
> I've googled and had no results. I know that something important
> should be find in runlevels (my system starts number 3).

Ii did that by editing /etc/inittab from

# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

to

# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
c7:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty7 linux
c8:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty8 linux
c9:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty9 linux
c10:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty10 linux
c11:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty11 linux
c12:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty12 linux

Not sure if terminals beyond 12 can be defined (and with which keyboard 
shortcut they are supposed to be activated)

There might be other (posssibly better and/or more correct) ways to get 
the same result.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Thursday 24 August 2006 21:11, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

> Ii did that by editing /etc/inittab from

BTW, never heard about screen?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:11:18PM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked:
> Not sure if terminals beyond 12 can be defined (and with which keyboard 
> shortcut they are supposed to be activated)

Yes. By default you have up to tty63. 

Some keyboard mappings allow you to do Alt+Left and Alt+Right for
cycling through the VCs. Another mapping that I used to use uses the
left and right windows key for that purpose. 

Or you can just issue chvt. See 'man chvt'

W

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Re: [gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:37:52 +0200 (CEST)
Rafael Fernández López wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've installed Gentoo in another computer, but this time is just for
> programming, emacs (maravellous !!), gcc, gdb, valgrind... you know.
> 
> I've no X.org and no graphical support.
> 
> For that reason I'd like to know how to make *ALL* terminals console
> terminals, because at this time they end at Ctrl + Alt + F6, and Ctrl +
> Alt + F7 has no login petition.
> 
> I've googled and had no results. I know that something important should be
> find in runlevels (my system starts number 3).
> 
> Thank you !!

See the other answers, but also note that screen is a great tool for use on a console

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