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Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?



Am 2006-02-23 14:49:15, schrieb Jan C. Nordholz:
> > Weired, because I can use it in a XTerm without any problems.
> > Works under Woody, Sarge and Etch.
> 
> Then your permission bits on /dev/console and/or /dev/tty0 are not
> as strict:

<snip>

> ] jcn@hejre:~$ ll /dev/tty0 /dev/console 
> ] crw------- 1 root tty  5, 1 2006-02-23 08:17 /dev/console
> ] crw------- 1 root root 4, 0 2005-03-29 21:30 /dev/tty0

I have a Woody standard installation and do not need to manipulate the
perms:

+---[ 'stdin' ]---------------------------------------------------------
| 
| [michelle.konzack@devel.private:~/] ll /dev/tty0 /dev/tty1 /dev/tty2 /
| dev/tty3 /dev/tty4 /dev/tty5 /dev/console
| crw-------    1 root     tty        5,   1 27. Sep 05:28 /dev/console
| crw-------    1 michelle private    4,   0 27. Sep 05:28 /dev/tty0
| crw-------    1 michelle tty        4,   1 24. Feb 22:05 /dev/tty1
| crw-------    1 root     tty        4,   2 20. Feb 19:07 /dev/tty2
| crw-------    1 tamay.do tty        4,   3 25. Feb 22:36 /dev/tty3
| crw-------    1 root     root       4,   4 22. Feb 15:22 /dev/tty4
| crw-------    1 root     root       4,   5 22. Feb 15:22 /dev/tty5
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------

+---[ cmd 'who' ]------------------------------------
| 
| michelle.konzack tty1         Feb 20 14:18         
| root             tty2         Feb 20 19:07         
| tamay.dogan      tty3         Feb 25 22:36         
| michelle.konzack pts/0        Feb 22 15:22 (:0.0)  
| michelle.konzack pts/4        Feb 22 18:21 (:0.0)  
+----------------------------------------------------

+---[ cmd 'fgconsole' ]--
| 
| 7
+------------------------

+---[ cmd 'strace -eopen fgconsole |grep "/dev/" ' ]--
| 
| open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR)                = 5
| open("/dev/tty0", O_RDWR)               = 5
| 7
+-----------------------------------------------------

> Regards,
> 
> Jan

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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