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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Creating virtual consoles on the fly
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:28:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030903202817.GX7304@alcor.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10C160F5A03A0942A1A87B658784CA6A0A4928@gummo.domain.trailerparc.com>

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:59:34PM -0700, Michael Talyansky wrote:

> Is there a programmatic way to create a virtual console on the fly, that
> is, without changing /etc/inittab and doing something like "telinit q"? 

inittab isn't magic; all it does is to run programs as appropriate for the
current runlevel.  You can run the same programs manually.

-- 
 - mdz


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-03 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-03 19:59 [uml-devel] Creating virtual consoles on the fly Michael Talyansky
2003-09-03 20:28 ` Matt Zimmerman [this message]
2003-09-04  4:38 ` Russell Coker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-04 18:00 Michael Talyansky
2003-09-04 22:49 ` Nuno Silva
2003-09-05 20:12 ` Jeff Dike
2003-09-05 20:46 Michael Talyansky
2003-09-06  0:53 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-09-13 14:33   ` BlaisorBlade

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