You should be able to do this, provided the perms are set right on that device.
-Derek
At 10:24 PM 10/11/2006, Murray Taylor wrote:
Hi all
I've been digging around in the various man pages and havent yet found
the
incantations I require.
Goal: to create a curses driven status screen
Hi all
I've been digging around in the various man pages and havent yet found
the
incantations I require.
Goal: to create a curses driven status screen that can run without user
intervention.
I want to know if it is possible to _programatically_ switch to an
unused
virtual tty,
-Original Message-
From: Raaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 13 October 2006 7:36 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Murray Taylor
Subject: Re: Question re ncurses and the various ttys
Hi all
I've been digging around in the various man pages and
havent
I want to know if it is possible to _programatically_ switch to
an unused virtual tty, and then use this as the display page.
( By unused I mean marked 'off' in /etc/ttys )
So if I set ttyv7 to off, can I launch a program (possibly from
a cold boot) that selects tty7 ( ie the now getty-less