vlock-new

Langue: en

Version: 66559 (mandriva - 22/10/07)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

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NAME

vlock-new - switch to a new console and lock the console display

SYNOPSIS

vlock-new

DESCRIPTION

vlock-all is part of vlock(1), the Virtual Console locking program for Linux. It allocates and switches to a new virtual console and runs vlock-all(8) there. After the vlock-all(8) exits it switches back to the previously active console.

EXIT CODES

vlock-new exits 111 after printing an error message if it has trouble switching to the new console. It exits 127 if it has trouble running vlock-all(8). If vlock-all(8) is killed by a signal it exits 128 plus the number of the signal. Otherwise its exit code is the that of vlock-all(8).

SEE ALSO

vlock(1), vlock-all(8),

AUTHORS

Frank Benkstein <frank-vlock@benkstein.net>