setting a dump terminal

[David Khoo]

How to setup a small terminal that will receive and display the message/status from another shell window running a program/script.

The dump terminal is meant to act as an indicator to user about the status of the program during testing operation.

[Joaquin Gil de Vergara]

I think the eaiest mode is

open a telnet session and look at the device file

# who am i

From the terminal where you're running the script, before to run this run

# script

this saves all input/output against the file... and appears on the other window

good luck!

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

There is no option to use dump terminal in this way.
May be you can check the logs(log files) generated by programs to know the status on the dump terminal

[David Khoo]

Hi, thanks for the replies. The question may be confusing. The dump terminal is not physical terminal. What I meant is to customize a shell window to be a small size dump terminal receiving status from another active shell window that is executing the program in a workplace.
If I want to send the status to the terminal, how do I get its device file during setup and customize it to be a display window only.

Appreciate the helps!

[Ravi_8]

Hi, david

Unix treat terminal as a file. If no o/p file is specified it writes to standard o/p (terminal/console) which is also a file.

you are trying to customize a shell window to be a small size dump terminal receiving status from another active shell window that is executing the program in a workplace.

Now the unix has to recognize the shell window has another o/p device, so this shell window must be a device file, which we can only dream

[Joaquin Gil de Vergara · Accepted solution]

In window 1 do

sv1:/home/root>who am i
root pts/tc Sep 24 14:15
sv1:/home/root>Script started on Tue Sep 24 14:16:12 2002
sv1:/home/root>hola
sh: hola: not found.
sv1:/home/root>l
.ICEauthority, .TTauthority, .WindU, .Xauthority, .dt, .dtprofile,
.elm, .hh, .lsof_luna1, .netscape, .ovweb.conf, .profile,
.pvdrill_DISK.txt, .pvdrill_GLOBAL.txt, .pvdrill_PROCESS.txt,
.pvprinters_pattern, .rhosts, .sgmgr, .sh_history, .sw, .windu.hpito.seur.es,
CPU.csv, Mail, adviser.out, cfg, core, depotsg, etc, import,
kmtune_luna1, llll, mapfile, memoria.csv, nohup.out, nsmail,
sqlnet.log, swap.csv
sv1:/home/root>

In window 2

sv1:/home/root>script /dev/pts/tc
Script started, file is /dev/pts/tc
sv1:/home/root>hola
sh: hola: not found.
sv1:/home/root>l
.ICEauthority, .TTauthority, .WindU, .Xauthority, .dt, .dtprofile,
.elm, .hh, .lsof_luna1, .netscape, .ovweb.conf, .profile,
.pvdrill_DISK.txt, .pvdrill_GLOBAL.txt, .pvdrill_PROCESS.txt,
.pvprinters_pattern, .rhosts, .sgmgr, .sh_history, .sw, .windu.hpito.seur.es,
CPU.csv, Mail, adviser.out, cfg, core, depotsg, etc, import,
kmtune_luna1, llll, mapfile, memoria.csv, nohup.out, nsmail,
sqlnet.log, swap.csv
sv1:/home/root>

All that apperar in window 2 is copied to window 1 ....

try... it work!