On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 21:48 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:40 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
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There exists a command-line command to do this as well, 'chvt' which is part of the kbd package.
I want to add openvt, just for completeness and because it lets me get really greedy about VTs. With default of 6 (*usually* more than enough) and occasional need for more, I can then use 7->24(? unless default X is running, then 8->*). Since I don't have to login to the new terminal screens, it satisfies my laziness gene.
Interesting, I knew a tool called 'open' that seemed similar to what you call 'openvt', so I looked on a RHEL4 and noticed that the 'open' and 'openvt' man pages are almost identical.
But:
[root@lisse rpms]# rpm -qf $(which open) open-1.4-21.x86_64 [root@lisse rpms]# rpm -qf $(which openvt) kbd-1.12-2.el4.4.x86_64
and:
[root@lisse rpms]# strings /usr/bin/open | grep '(c)' open: 1.4 (c) Jon Tombs 1994 [root@lisse rpms]# strings /usr/bin/openvt | grep '(c)' openvt 1.4b - (c) Jon Tombs 1994
So Red Hat is shipping the same program twice, with a different name and version in 2 different packages.
They apparently got their act together in RHEL5 :)
* Sat Jul 15 2006 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com - 1.12-17 - Obsoletes/Provides open - Create a symlink from open to openvt
PS I usually set inittab to only create 2 VTs, any other I can create myself using 'open' although screen often makes it irrelevant anyway.