[plug] Virtual Console with ssh

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 04:37:28PM +0800, Rob Davies wrote:

| I have a couple of mail servers that are in testing mode, for logging 
| purposes I have auth and mail running on tty9 and tty10. Due to brain fade 
| which seems to be happening since 40 I cannot remember how I used to access 
| remotely. SSH drops me into a terminal, but I cannot switch terminals, I 
| know I am missing the point somewhere.

SSH will give you a new virtual terminal (/dev/ptsN for some nonnegative
integer N).  As far as I know there's no simple way of 'eavesdroppping'
on or otherwise accessing another terminal, even as root.  If your
servers are logging to a file as well as a terminal, you can use tail -f
to access them remotely though.

Cameron.