Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

[Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>]

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> > Anybody got any way for a script to tell if 
> > 1) I'm logged onto the console
> 
> Well, if `tty` matches /tty\d/ is probably best.

Well,  yes,  except that I might be on from the console on /dev/tty3 ...
all I really care about is that I'm sitting physically in front of
computer,  so that /dev/tty{whatever} is actually connected to my monitor
and keyboard rather than being a serial line or an ethernet line...

						thanks though
                     					Will


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