You might want to look into screen. Besides having some really cool terminal multiplexing features, it allows you to lock a terminal. As an added bonus you can reattach to sessions and have split screens. Check it out. -ajb On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:39:14PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:47:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:24:27PM -0500, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote: > | > > | > Is there a way to lock all consoles except for 7? 'vlock -a' will > | > lock all consoles, but then it prevents switching back to X. > | > | What's your goal? > > My goal is to login to a console and do some non-gui stuff. Then lock > the console and walk away, but still allow X to be used. Sometimes I > like to tail the mail logs in a console, and the only way to lock them > (without killing the tail) is to lock all consoles. The problem then > is that it is impossible to switch to vc7 and use X there. > > -D > > -- > > In his heart a man plans his course, > but the Lord determines his steps. > Proverbs 16:9 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Andrew Barros <andy@nethernet.com> Systems Manager GPG Key Fingerprint: EC9C DFC5 C565 E90C 0FFA C4E7 539F DE81 2A92 E07D <http://andy.netherweb.com/> _ _ _ _ _ ___| |_| |_ ___ _ _ _ _ ___| |_ | ' \/ -_) _| ' \/ -_) '_| ' \/ -_) _| |_||_\___|\__|_||_\___|_| |_||_\___|\__|
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