Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: VP/ix Message-ID: <7048@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 1 Dec 88 21:40:40 GMT References: <240@ssbn.WLK.COM> <144@ecicrl.UUCP> <6966@chinet.chi.il.us> <708@picuxa.UUCP> <709@picuxa.UUCP> Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Distribution: na Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 20 In article <709@picuxa.UUCP> tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) writes: > You can add /etc/getty processes for the virtual terminals, >but usingF8 will not return you to the console session; perhaps >a different keystroke sequence works It is to go to the console but I still haven't found any real documentation for the vt devices. What I want to do is automatically start several jobs on the vt's when I log in at the console (i.e. I don't want to log in to each one). Starting a background shell with simple redirection almost works but it doesn't connect the process group to the vt (so no interrupt signal). Using setpgrp disconnects the session from the console but it is still not connected to vt. Also, now that I have run vtlmgr the from a dos session will not give me a new unix session even though I have logged out killing the previously started vtlmgr (this still works for root, though). A window manager that would allow you to name the sessions would be nice, or perhaps GNU emacs could be taught how to use them. Les Mikesell