not able to output anything to /dev/ttyv8?

[Michael Hauber]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:23:04 pm Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Dear list
>
> On Gentoo Linux I used to redirect the output of a certain app
> to /dev/tty10 and switch to tty10 (by using Alt+F10)
>
> this is useful to keep watching the application.
>
> this doesn't work on FreeBSD. I can do
> # ehco hello > /dev/ttyv8
> # ehco hello > /dev/ttyv9
> # ehco hello > /dev/ttyva
>
> But Alt+F9, Alt+F10, Alt+F11 only cause the machine to beep
>
> Possible to use /dev/ttyv9 for output device in FreeBSD? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Best regards

try 'man ttys' and edit your /etc/ttys.
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