From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 11: 0:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACC837B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:00:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DF343F85 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:00:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a086.otenet.gr [212.205.215.86]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1RJ0sks009926 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:00:54 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1RJ0rCs001859 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:00:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1RILZiA001390 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:21:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:21:35 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: determining active console Message-ID: <20030227182135.GB993@gothmog.gr> References: <20030227113959.GB610@gicco.homeip.net> <20030227134837.GD1297@gothmog.gr> <20030227165828.GA3638@gicco.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030227165828.GA3638@gicco.homeip.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-27 17:58, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Feb 27 at 15:48, Giorgos Keramidas spoke: > > On 2003-02-27 12:39, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > Hello, > > > how can I determine the active console? > > > > Use the tty(1) command: > > But this seems to yield the tty from which the command was launched. > So if I do > > sleep 9; tty Hmmm, this is the "definition" of a virtual console. You can run long-running commands on one and still switch to another. > and then switch to an another console, that `tty` yields the tty > that was active when the command line was started. Yep. That's the idea. > But I'd like to know the console that has got the keyboard focus by > switching with --. So, run "tty" on the console *after* switching to it :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message