SHOWCONSOLE(8) The SuSE boot concept SHOWCONSOLE(8)NAME
Showconsole - determines the real tty of stdin
Setconsole - redirect system console output to a tty
SYNOPSIS
showconsole [-n]
setconsole [-r|/dev/tty<xy>]
DESCRIPTION
showconsole determines the real character device of the current system
console. This can be used on /dev/console as current character device
to get the real character device back.
With an terminal device as argument setconsole redirects the output
that would have gone to /dev/console or /dev/tty0 to the given termi‐
nal. Without any argument or the option the setconsole undo any redi‐
rection.
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 con‐
trolling 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 ALSOblogd(8), console(4), tty(4), proc(5).
COPYRIGHT
2000 Werner Fink, 2000 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
3rd Berkeley Distribution Nov 10, 2000 SHOWCONSOLE(8)