[plug] TTYs

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Sat Oct 27 20:26:35 WST 2001


On Friday 26 October 2001 10:03, 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?

Console TTYs only, cat /dev/vcsN - N being the console number. /dev/vcsaN 
gives attribuer/character pairs (this is off the top of my head, so could be 
wrong).

There are also serial IO spy programs. I haven't looked into PTYs yet.



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