[Gllug] /dev/console

[Simon Faulkner]

Gentlemen,

Thank you for your answers I am sorted :-)

I am also stunned at how much you can do with bash!

I've not used it for more than piping a few commands before and not I have
written a whole program :-)

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of Paul Nasrat
Sent: 19 May 2003 11:25
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] /dev/console


On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:31:19AM +0100, John Hearns wrote:

> Or maybe autologin a user with a very restricted shell and use write?

You don't need to login, you can just run something direct from init.
open or openvt seem to do the job.

http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/virtualconsoles.html

Conversely you could get your application to use syslog using one of the
local syslog levels and get it to go to a tty by adding a line to
syslog.conf

eg local0.*	/dev/tty10

They nice thing about openvt is that it can switch to the console so you
could get it to tail a file or something.

Paul


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