On Friday, 15 December 2000 at 17:49, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi all
>
> In the debain sytem the tty7-12 are not used by default. How can i for
> example use TTY10 to schow me the messages file. If i log in in an other tty
> and type 'tail /var/log/messages > /dev/tty12' then it does show the changing
> of messages there but the other tty is blocked because tail is attached to
> the starter tty. How can i make that? Or generally: How can i detach any sort
> of apps from the ttys?
for the particular problem you mention, you might be happier adjusting
/etc/syslog.conf:
daemon,kern.*;*.=info;\
mail.!info;daemon.!debug;\
*.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty12
in general I think what you want to do is redirect stdin and stderr as
well as stdout. From my inittab:
11:23:respawn:/usr/bin/gitps axf < /dev/tty11 > /dev/tty11 2>&1
also there is the openvt command, so you could do something like
openvt -c 12 -- tail /var/log/messages
I think... I don't really ever use openvt...
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