Yes, the devices are there to make you ask questions. The man page for inittab is there to give answers. Look in /etc/inittab. You will see getty entries for tty0-tty5. Duplicate the last of these entries, making the appropriate changes to numbers, for each additional virtual console you require. Then run: telinit q Luke On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > Just a question, probably unrelated, but does anyone happen to know how I > can login to more tty's than just 6? My system will only let me login to > tty's 1 through 6, and I see over 40 tty's in /dev. How can I login to > all these other consoles or are they just there to make newbies like me to > ask silly questions? LOL. > > Lorenzo > > E Pluribus Unix > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >