Ok thanks. I have only one other console that I use with root, but thanks for the name of the file that controls that. See, either I forgot or that may have changed, but more likely I forgot. Dan Murphy mailto:mweeby at verizon.net AIM screen name: mweeby2000 Skype: mweeby Web: http://greenwoodbbs.dyndns.org:8085 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 6:13 AM Subject: Re: Back again One more tip, while we are tipping: If you want to log into any of those consoles as root, you must make sure it has en entry in /etc/securetty (check spelling). Chuck On Wed, 18 May 2005, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:57:04PM -0400, Dan Murphy wrote: >> thanks Ralph. >> I made those changes in inittab and they worked fine. >> I didn't like having to cross the keyboard so I defined some more >> terminals that are easier to access. > > Actually, another way you can jump from terminal to terminal is using > the left alt key plus the left or right arrow keys. This will cycle you > from 1 to 2 to 3 and so on. I use that method all the time. But I've > never had more than four sessions going at any one time. using the > arrow keys to get from console 2 clear up to console 23 would be an > awful lot of right arrow presses:). > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCjDKlWSjv55S0LfERA0imAJ9toP5cUUjtWdxMTRBX09IHdecmTwCeN3Aa > Wu5rcMMUn3YrKtMMrTjRjFU= > =LCwd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (78% of Full) There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who count in binary, and those who do not. You can download some things from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
