[Gllug] /dev/console

[Paul Nasrat]

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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