From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 22 23:46:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04855 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:46:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aero.org (aero.org [130.221.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04848 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@rush.aero.org) Received: from rush.aero.org ([130.221.201.83]) by aero.org with ESMTP id <17362-1>; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:45:54 -0800 Received: from anpiel.aero.org (anpiel.aero.org [130.221.196.66]) by rush.aero.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA28409 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:45:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from anpiel.aero.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anpiel.aero.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00858 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:45:51 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802230745.XAA00858@anpiel.aero.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Grabbing the console Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:45:50 -0800 From: "Mike O'Brien" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The pcvt console driver seems to show an ioctl() for grabbing the system console output away from whichever virtual console has it at the moment, but I can't seem to find any command that actually calls this ioctl() (except maybe 'xconsole', which I haven't checked). Is there a command I can run on a regular ttyv?, not under X Windows, which will cause console output to come to that virtual console? I figured I'd ask before genning one up myself. Mike O'Brien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message