Starting a program at boot time on virtual terminal
Chris Pressey
cpressey at catseye.mb.ca
Wed May 14 15:12:18 PDT 2003
Hi all,
What I'd like to do is start a program on one of my virtual terminals
when my FreeBSD 4.8 machine boots up.
By 'program' I mean a program besides xdm or getty, actually. The man
page implies it is possible, but how specifically can I do this? When I
try putting anything besides getty or xdm or none in /etc/ttys, I get
this message:
getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv7, sleeping 30 secs
I take it the program I start has to have some provision for logging in.
I tried starting it with 'su', with no luck. I can't think of any other
way to specify that a command be run on a virtual terminal by a given
user on startup. Hoping someone here can give me a hint.
TIA
-Chris
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list