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
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, and then use
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
