On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:45:43PM -0800, Antonio Sabato wrote:
> I am trying to display a message HELLO in my current terminal. How do i do
> this by adding an entry into the /etc/inittab file? Like now when i type
> tty, it displays my current terminal, but i want to display hello..how do i
> do that?
i have NO idea what you are doing (or asking), but this is the best i
can make of your question:
this appended to /etc/inittab:
9:2345:once:/bin/echo HELLO > /dev/tty9
will display HELLO on console 9 - there's not much else you might want
to do with inittab
you could do:
ln /dev/tty9 /dev/HELLO
and change the above inittab line to
9:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 HELLO
and then logins on console 9 would be on /dev/HELLO (this will
probably break all sorts of things, but hey)
you'll have to run "telinit q" to get init to reread /etc/inittab
immediately
if all you want to do is display HELLO in your current terminal, then
whats wrong with:
echo HELLO
before you start leaping in and playing with /etc/inittab, i'd be real
careful to have a backup and a boot/root disk handy.
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- Gus
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