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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 ALSO
       blogd(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)

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