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showconsole
Langue: en
Version: Nov 10, 2000 (openSuse - 09/10/07)
Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)
NAME
Showconsole - determines the underlying tty of stdinSetconsole - sets the underlying tty of /dev/console
SYNOPSIS
showconsole [-n]setconsole /dev/tty<xy> < /dev/console
DESCRIPTION
showconsole determines the underlying character device of the current stdin. This can be used on /dev/console as current character device to get the real character device back.setconsole sets the underlying tty of the system console /dev/console. This requires that the standard input is identical with /dev/console and exactly one argument, a valid character device is given. ."
OPTIONS
- -n
- Return the major and minor device numbers instead of the device file name. This can be used to asked the kernel for the major and minor device numbers of a not existing device file in /dev. ."
BUGS
showconsole needs a mounted /proc file system and tries to set the controlling tty to stdin if no controlling tty is found. After reading /proc the status of the controlling tty is restored to avoid problems with getty processes.FILES
- /proc/<pid of showconsole>/stat
- the stat file of the showconsole process.
- /dev/console
- the system console.
SEE ALSO
blogd(8), console(4), tty(4), proc(5).COPYRIGHT
2000 Werner Fink, 2000 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>Contenus ©2006-2024 Benjamin Poulain
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