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add new terminal

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.

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