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Re: Starting a program in a specific virtual terminal



On March 31, 2003 09:12 pm, sean finney wrote:
> hi leo,
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:25:57PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I wanted to run a certain program (darkstat) at boot but I want
> > it to run in verbose mode and display the output in one of the
> > other virtual terminals so I can ALT-Fx to it..  I've got it
> > starting at boot but how can I specify the VT it starts in?
>
> take a look at the rungetty package, and replace the appropriate
> entry in /etc/inittab.  take a look at:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200302/msg0555
>7.html

Beauty.  That worked.

Leo



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