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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: More virtual terminals
Date: 28 Jul 1995 21:48:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3vb5oo$idb@ddi2.digital.net>, Kevin <klo@digital.net> wrote:
>How do I go about adding more virutal terminals? MAKEDEV doesn't want to 
>make any more, and I can't seem to find it in my kernel config file 


Just edit /etc/ttys.  You'll see where "off" should be turned to "on",
and you can alos clone the last line (changing the vty#, of course) for
up to 12 VTYs.

					Jordan