[plug] TTYs

[Bernard]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:03:15AM +0800, locutus at borg.apana.org.au wrote:
> Is there a way that I can watch what's happening  on  another TTY
> without switching from my current one?
> 
> For instance, if there's a process running on tty01, is there a way I
> can see what it's doing (actual output, NOT process info) from tty05?

One option, might be to use 'tee'.... Reads stdin, writes to stdout
as well as another file.

eg, tty01:

./someprogram | tee /tmp/output.log

on tty05:

tail -f /tmp/output.log

or if you want to capture stderr as well, use
./someprogram 2>&1 | tee /tmp/output.log

This solution may or may not suit depending on what your aiming to
do. But worth a mention.

Regards,

Bernard.

-- 
 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au