"Christopher W. Curtis" wrote:
>
> Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > Hm. I wonder if there are some situations where a floppy user might
> > not have console access? Say someone else is sitting in front of the
> > console, but isn't using the floppy. Is this a scenario which people
> > care about?
>
> It's happened to me many a time. In a public lab, things like floppy
> drives can get trashed pretty easily, so you ask the person at the
> console to insert the floppy, they look at you strange, you go back to
> your station and copy your files, type 'eject floppy' (solaris), wander
> back over, thank them and take the disk.
>
> And I don't understand how you can determine 'console'. All my linux
> boxes have 6 consoles, and there are often a few different users on each
> of them.
>
Your boxes don't have 6 consoles. They might have 6 terminals attached
to them, but there is ever only one console.
It's obviously easier to deal with if you're running xdm or something
like that.
-hpa
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