SHOWCONSOLE(8)

NAME
Showconsole - determines the underlying tty of stdin
Setconsole - sets the underlying tty of /dev/console

SYNOPSIS
showconsole

setconsole /dev/tty<xy> < /dev/console

DESCRIPTION
showconsole determines the underlying character device of the current stdin. This can be used on /dev/console as current character device to get the real character device back.

setconsole sets the underlying tty of the system console /dev/console. This requires that the standard input is identical with /dev/console and exactly one argument, a valid character device is given. ."

BUGS
showconsole needs a mounted /proc file system and tries to set the controlling tty to stdin if no controlling tty is found. After reading /proc the status of the controlling tty is restored to avoid problems with getty processes.

FILES

/proc/<pid of showconsole>/stat
    the stat file of the showconsole process.

/dev/console
    the system console.

SEE ALSO
blogd(8), console(4), tty(4), proc(5).

COPYRIGHT
2000 Werner Fink, 2000 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.

AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>