Re: [Rule-list] Anybody have experience with openvt?

[Marco Fioretti]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 12:03:04 at 12:03:04PM -0700, Eugene Wong wrote:
> >From: "chris clark" <address@hidden>
> <snip>
> >but the man page says:
> <snip>
> >give that a try.
> 
> Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I checked the man page and it didn't 
> work as described. I had to use "openvt -sw", without quotes, of course.
> 
> I'm surprised at how little comment there has been about this idea for RULE. 
> For what it's worth, I'm happy running one console at boot up and then using 
> "openvt -sw". I'm sure that it saves time at boot up too.
> 
> 
Eugene,

you are right. I didn't answer initially because I seemed to remember
that this had already been discussed, coming to the same or very
similar conclusions, some time ago (but I might be wrong of course). I
also agree with Chris' correction: two looks better, so if one locks
yuo go to the other.

        Ciao,
                Marco Fioretti

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