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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!wilbur.nas.nasa.gov!tweten From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) Subject: Re: What is advantage of Virtual Console? Message-ID: <CKIuou.7B5@nas.nasa.gov> Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: wilbur.nas.nasa.gov Organization: NAS Systems Division, NASA Ames References: <hastyCKDB54.HJn@netcom.com> <1994Jan30.000446.14443@dde.dk> <2if6nl$pus@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 01:26:53 GMT Lines: 15 In article <2if6nl$pus@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >There are (known) problems with the way pccons and XFree86 interact. > >For example, try the 'kill -HUP syslogd.pid' when running pccons and >watch the console hang. (This also happens in syscons 1.0, but I >don't know about pcvt) I'm sending this follow-up from an xterm on my FreeBSD 1.0.2 system running pccons and XFree86 2.0. I read the original article, opened an xterm on my local machine, ran the commands and no bad things happened. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Tweten tweten@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center, M/S 258-5 (415) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 FAX: (415) 604-4377