Starting "screen" session on main console (/dev/tty0) at boot?

[Spartrekus]

Hello

I would like to boot FreeBSD and that it does directly start and display a running screen session.

So that, herewith, I will connect via SSH and can "pilot" the given screen session (over SSH). It is then a sort of multihead (for low resource) display.

my command at boot would be (for root or regular user, doesnt matter much to me):
screen -d -m -S myscreensession

I am looking forward to reading your ideas or tipps.

Thank you a lot in advance.

 

[zirias@]

Well, you can change the line for ttyv0 in /etc/ttys to perform an auto logon for root:

ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty al.Pc"         xterm   on  secure

If you want a different user, add an entry similar to al.Pc in /etc/gettytab, for example

aljohn.Pc:\
        :al=johndoe:tc=Pc

and use this in /etc/ttys.

Then, you can use your shell's startup files to launch screen if you're on ttyv0, just use the output of tty(1) for checking.

BTW, any specific reason to prefer screen over sysutils/tmux?