On 2003-02-27 17:58, Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 27 at 15:48, Giorgos Keramidas spoke: > > On 2003-02-27 12:39, Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > how can I determine the active console? > > > > Use the tty(1) command: > > But this seems to yield the tty from which the command was launched. > So if I do > > sleep 9; tty
Hmmm, this is the "definition" of a virtual console. You can run long-running commands on one and still switch to another. > and then switch to an another console, that `tty` yields the tty > that was active when the command line was started. Yep. That's the idea. > But I'd like to know the console that has got the keyboard focus by > switching with <ctrl>-<alt>-<fN>. So, run "tty" on the console *after* switching to it :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message