:John Baldwin writes:
: > > Why? If someone hasn't done a MAKEDEV of the device, it is just as
: > > dead. MAKEDEV + kill -1 1 will bring it back if they didn't
: > > (untested, but it is the normal way to do these things).
: >
: > Agreed, that's why I said "maybe" b/c it would be preserving t
John Baldwin writes:
> > Why? If someone hasn't done a MAKEDEV of the device, it is just as
> > dead. MAKEDEV + kill -1 1 will bring it back if they didn't
> > (untested, but it is the normal way to do these things).
>
> Agreed, that's why I said "maybe" b/c it would be preserving the
>
On 27-Sep-2002 M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>:
>: On 26-Sep-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>: >
>: > Mark Murray writes:
>: > > Hi
>: > >
>: > > The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
>: >
> I agree. I think that more ttys is a bad idea, since each one takes
> more memory as well (since the data space isn't shared). While this
> is a small amount, it is a pain for lower memory systems.
>
> I usually run three ttys myself (imp + root + spare), but it is a
> matter of taste. Each
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Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
: box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
:
: Any objections to my committing this?
Yes. This is a personal preference thing, and we already h
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Makoto Matsushita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: culverk> This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one
: culverk> don't like a lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch
: culverk> of ttys that I'm not going to use is a waste of ram..
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John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: On 26-Sep-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
: >
: > Mark Murray writes:
: > > Hi
: > >
: > > The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
: > > box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
:
At 10:22 AM +0100 9/26/02, Mark Murray wrote:
>Hi
>
>The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
>box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
>
>Any objections to my committing this?
I think the we will have more users who are hurt (or at least
annoyed) by moving X, then we hav
On 2002-09-26 14:50, Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one don't like a
> > lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch of ttys that I'm not going
> > to use is a waste of ram I usually keep F1-F3 as ttys, and make F4 run
> > k
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Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
> box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
>
> Any objections to my committing this?
PC-98x1 keyboards have only ten function keys. So, it is impossible to
On 26-Sep-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> Mark Murray writes:
> > Hi
> >
> > The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
> > box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
> >
> > Any objections to my committing this?
>
> I object.
>
> Most of my machines are headless w
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:08:41AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 26-Sep-2002 Steve Kargl wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Ken that this is a personal preference
> > thingie. I have X tied to F8. There is no real reason
> > for this choice other than inertia. I suspect people who use
> > merge
>
> Mark Murray writes:
> > Hi
> >
> > The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
> > box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
> >
> > Any objections to my committing this?
>
> I object.
>
> Most of my machines are headless without video cards and use a serial
> c
On 26-Sep-2002 Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:50:20PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
>> > This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one don't like a
>> > lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch of ttys that I'm not going
>> > to use is a waste of ram I usually
On 26-Sep-2002 Mark Murray wrote:
>> Are old-style non-F11, F12 keyboards still working with=20
>> FreeBSD?
>
> I don't know, but as those are in the vast minority, its perhaps
> OK to ask those folks to edit ttys to something more useful to them,
> rather than the other way round. :-)
If you a
On 26-Sep-2002 Mark Murray wrote:
> Hi
>
> The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
> box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
>
> Any objections to my committing this?
Yep. I think it's best just to leave things as they are. I pretty
much have Alt-F9 hardcoded into
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Gallatin w
rites:
>
>Mark Murray writes:
> > Hi
> >
> > The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
> > box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
> >
> > Any objections to my committing this?
>
>I object.
>
>Most of my machines are head
Mark Murray writes:
> Hi
>
> The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
> box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
>
> Any objections to my committing this?
I object.
Most of my machines are headless without video cards and use a serial
console. With devfs this m
> The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD box (I
> like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
>
> Any objections to my committing this?
I do the opposite, and turn off five vty's to get just three [job
control works for me]. -- IMHO a personal like/dislike shouldn't be a
reason t
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:50:20PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> > This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one don't like a
> > lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch of ttys that I'm not going
> > to use is a waste of ram I usually keep F1-F3 as ttys, and make F4 run
> >
culverk> This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one
culverk> don't like a lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch
culverk> of ttys that I'm not going to use is a waste of ram
Seconded. Two ttys are enough for me. Many getty(8) processes usually
waste our process table
> This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one don't like a
> lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch of ttys that I'm not going
> to use is a waste of ram I usually keep F1-F3 as ttys, and make F4 run
> kdm. I know I don't really have a say, but I'm sure everyone has his
This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one don't like a
lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch of ttys that I'm not going
to use is a waste of ram I usually keep F1-F3 as ttys, and make F4 run
kdm. I know I don't really have a say, but I'm sure everyone has his or
her o
If you do make this change, make sure it's carefully documented in the
release notes. Otherwise we're going to get a lot of surprised "I can no
longer get back to my X server after I switch away from it"'s.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:22:15AM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Hi
>
> The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD
> box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12).
>
> Any objections to my committing this?
>
Greedy VTY monster (cf. etc.i386/ttys,v 1.4). :-)
Cheers,
--
Ruslan
> Are old-style non-F11, F12 keyboards still working with=20
> FreeBSD?
I don't know, but as those are in the vast minority, its perhaps
OK to ask those folks to edit ttys to something more useful to them,
rather than the other way round. :-)
M
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