On Thursday 09 August 2001 00:40, jennifer wrote: > On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:58, Amien Salie wrote: > > Hi > > > > Try ctrl+alt+F keys > > > > Peace > > Amien > > > > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 00:25, emammendes wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I had 7.2 on my old computer and with it I could use alt+F keys to > > > access different screens (terminals)? Now with 8.0 > > > alf+F2 to 9 won't work so I am stuck with just one screen. How can I > > > make them available? > > > > > > Many thanks > > > > > > Eduardo > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > NetZero Platinum > > > Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! > > > http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 > > Whoa!!! Leave it to a newbie to randomly try out the advice on this list!! > > > I tried out the cntrl+ALT+ F 1,2,3,4,5, etc keys together while in X. lemme > tell you, the results were not what I expected. > > C+A+F1 = non graphic login screen (no big deal) > C+A+F2 = x server crash message (I don't know where these logs are so i > can't share) > C+A+F3-6= nongraphic login screen (same as 1) > C+A+F7 however, brought up what I imaginge is my ports entry log. (i don't > know where it lives yet so can't share) But, X went away and I had a > portsentry alert of a UDp scan by host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > C+A+F10 -11 brings up a blinking curser after x goes away > C+A+F12 brings up the graphical state of the system.(just like when its > booting) > > Of course, C+A+F9 brings back X no matter what I tried. Strange...What > different from my system that this doesn't work?? > > And is this a cool feature of portsentry that you can simply press C+A+F7 > to see your log and then C+A+F9 to enter back into X?? I forgot to include A+C+F8 That brings seems to start the postfix deamon.
