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
>
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