From: mitch@spuddy.uucp (Mitchum Dsouza) Subject: Re: 4th time: PLEASE help with pl10!!! Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 12:05:48 GMT
John Henders says:
> In comp.os.linux you write:
>
> >You should have a binary 'doshell' somewhere (if not contact me).
> >At the last line of your rc.local put the line
>
> >doshell tty5 /bin/sh &
>
> This is not concerning Craig's problem, but I have nuked having
> login running on ttys 5-8 to sqeeze out a little extra ram for X,
> and I occasionally would like an extra vc to use. I tried the above, and
> nothing happens. Any idea whay not. This is on 99pl0. Doshell just exits
> immediately. They tty worked fine when I had it det up in inittab with a
> getty respawning on it.
>
Ok, so you guessed, I f****d up big time. :-)
The line should actually read.
doshell /dev/tty5 /bin/sh &
Mitch
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