> -Original Message-
> From: Raaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 13 October 2006 7:36 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: Murray Taylor
> Subject: Re: Question re ncurses and the various ttys
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I've
> Hi all
>
> I've been digging around in the various man pages and havent yet found
> the
> incantations I require.
>
> Goal: to create a curses driven status screen that can run without user
> intervention.
>
> I want to know if it is possible to _programatically_ switch to an
> unused
> virt
You should be able to do this, provided the perms are set right on that device.
-Derek
At 10:24 PM 10/11/2006, Murray Taylor wrote:
Hi all
I've been digging around in the various man pages and havent yet found
the
incantations I require.
Goal: to create a curses driven status screen
> I want to know if it is possible to _programatically_ switch to
> an unused virtual tty, and then use this as the display page.
> ( By unused I mean marked 'off' in /etc/ttys )
>
> So if I set ttyv7 to off, can I launch a program (possibly from
> a cold boot) that selects tty7 ( ie the now getty
