Darren J Moffat wrote: > Riny Qian wrote: > >>On Linux, the system console will always go to the current active vt; >>and there's only "Alt + F#" for vts. >> >> >>>I thought, but it has been a while at Alt+F1 went to >>>/dev/console and Alt+F2 went to the first non system console vt >>>etc. >> >>Since the system console (/dev/console) is somewhat special on >>Solaris, it looks confused to me that "Alt + F1" goes to the >>system console, instead of the first vt. > > > Think about this from the users perspective though, > particularly a user familiar with Linux or BSD. > > IIRC on those systems if I prese Alt+F1 it goes to > the first place I can login. It is also for them > the console (right ?).
No. It's not the console for them. > So thats my first login. > I then press Alt+F2 and login again, and so on. > > So why should I press Alt+F1 to go to my second login > and Alt+h or Alt+SysRq to go to the first one. That > seems confusing. > > The fact that the system console is somewhat special > doesn't in my opinion mean it shouldn't be Alt+F1. > On Solaris with virtual console, we'll have the system console (virtual console 0) and virtual consoles login prompts (vt1 to vt6 by default). If we use "Alt + F1" for the system console; then we'll use "Alt + F2" the first vt, and ... thus we'll have to call the system console as the first virtual console. > I would however very much like to here opinions of > other people, particularly those with more recent > Linux or BSD experience than I have. >
