add new terminal

kant992@gmail.com · 07-26-2009, 07:38 AM

dear,

kindly tell me how to add one more terminal in redhat linux 5.3 .by default one is for grphical and other 6 terminals are cui. how to add
8th terminals.please give step by step.

mickza · 07-26-2009, 10:26 AM

You add extra terminals by editing /etc/inittab, this example adds tty7 thru tty11 to the standard inittab.

Code:

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty7
8:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty8
9:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty9
10:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty10
11:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty11