Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:13:48 -0800 From: Eric Blood <eblood@winky.reno.nv.us> To: James FitzGibbon <james@else.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commandline switch vty ? Message-ID: <199512282113.NAA02322@winky.reno.nv.us> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:12:30 EST." <Pine.LNX.3.91.951228131035.1424A-100000@else.net>
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.951228131035.1424A-100000@else.net>you write:
>Does anyone know of a way to change the current vty from the command line?
Upon examining the source for syscons (/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/syscons.c), it
recognizes ANSI character sequences. One of the codes is ESC[nz. This
will change to the nth console. With this following program, you can
switch to a given console at the command line:
escape.c
void main(int argc, char **argv) {
if (argc == 2)
printf("%c%s\n", '\x1b', argv[1]);
}
In order to switch to the second console (ttyv1) you would do
"escape [1z".
Good luck.
Eric Blood
eblood@cs.unr.edu, http://www.cs.unr.edu/~eblood
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