Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:52:19 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com (Brett Glass) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jbarrm@panix.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Console messages Message-ID: <199604170222.LAA05145@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9603168296.AA829677573@ccgate.infoworld.com> from "Brett Glass" at Apr 16, 96 12:51:42 pm
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Brett Glass stands accused of saying: > > > Don't do that - you can't switch to a vty that isn't open 8) (for > > obvious reasons...) > > Do you mean to say that one can't disable logins on a vty and use it as a > status display (as one can do with any other tty)? Why not? You can use it as a status display as long as you keep it open. When you close it, the storage used by its state is freed, and so you can't switch to it anymore. This is the technique used by sysinstall to show debugging information on the second console. If you leave a getty running on it, you can still write to it and use it as a status display, and because the getty keeps it open, you can read the status even after it's closed. Note that there's nothing wrong with leaving the getty on - it won't redisplay its prompt unless you type at it... -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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