[Gllug] /dev/console

[Simon Faulkner]

In fact, just echo "Message" seems to work :-)


All I have to do now is stop the screen going to sleep!

Simon


-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of John Hearns
Sent: 19 May 2003 09:31
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] /dev/console


On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 09:18, Simon Faulkner wrote:

>
> If a Linux box is left at a text login prompt can I send a line of text to
> the screen and if so then how best to do this?
>
> Or has anybody got any better suggestions?

echo "Message" > /dev/tty1  (or whatever tty is left on the screen)

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



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