xconsole, lan console and secure web console

Tammy Liang — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:18:16 GMT

How did xconsole, lan console or secure web console get the message send to /dev/console and display it?

Thanks for any help

Re: xconsole, lan console and secure web console

Steve Steel — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:59:13 GMT

NAME
console, systty, syscon - system console interface

DESCRIPTION
/dev/console provides a termio interface to the device configured as
the system console. The init(1M) man page discusses the uses of
/dev/systty and /dev/syscon.

Output data normally sent to the console, either through /dev/console
or generated by a kernel printf, may be redirected to another terminal
or pseudo-terminal device through the TIOCCONS ioctl(). See termio(7)
for details.

FILES
/dev/console
/dev/systty
/dev/syscon

SEE ALSO
termio(7), init(1M).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
console: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2

Steve STeel

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xconsole, lan console and secure web console

Re: xconsole, lan console and secure web console