On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Mick wrote > Right, as Joost points out if there is no tty12 specified you won't have one > to display syslog-ng. Check your /etc/rc.conf for this entry: > > # on Linux and Hurd, this is the number of ttys allocated for logins > # It is used in the consolefont, keymaps, numlock and termencoding > # service scripts. > rc_tty_number=12
I have that. I do have one non-standard item in /etc/inittab that I've been using for years without trouble... # TERMINALS #x1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 console linux 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 c7:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty7 linux c8:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty8 linux c9:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty9 linux This puts X on tty10. Back before xrandr was up to its current feature set, I'd bring up a second X at a different reolution on tty11, to get something resembling "fullscreen" on video streams that were 640x480 or 512x384. Logging to tty12 has always worked fine. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
