Re: not able to output anything to /dev/ttyv8?

2007-06-06 Thread Eric F Crist
Along those same lines, I'd like to output iftop to ttyv0 (main console) with login across serial and/or another tty. I get rate limit errors of some sort when I edit /etc/ttys. What method should I use to ouput an application such as iftop to a tty? TIA Eric Crist On 6/6/07, Zhang Weiwu <[E

Re: not able to output anything to /dev/ttyv8?

2007-06-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:31 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > Im not sure what your application may be, but my simple solution is > just to > 'tail -f /path/logfile'. This way, I can see the output of my > application > from anywhere I am via ssh (not just the local tty). Year, sure, right! I have

Re: not able to output anything to /dev/ttyv8?

2007-06-06 Thread Jonathan Horne
On 6/6/07 9:17 AM, "Zhang Weiwu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 03:14 -0400, Michael Hauber wrote: >> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:23:04 pm Zhang Weiwu wrote: >>> Dear list >>> >>> On Gentoo Linux I used to redirect the output of a certain app >>> to /dev/tty10 and switch to

Re: not able to output anything to /dev/ttyv8?

2007-06-06 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 03:14 -0400, Michael Hauber wrote: > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:23:04 pm Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > Dear list > > > > On Gentoo Linux I used to redirect the output of a certain app > > to /dev/tty10 and switch to tty10 (by using Alt+F10) > > > > this is useful to keep watching the

Re: not able to output anything to /dev/ttyv8?

2007-06-06 Thread Michael Hauber
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:23:04 pm Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Dear list > > On Gentoo Linux I used to redirect the output of a certain app > to /dev/tty10 and switch to tty10 (by using Alt+F10) > > this is useful to keep watching the application. > > this doesn't work on FreeBSD. I can do > # ehco hello

not able to output anything to /dev/ttyv8?

2007-06-05 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear list On Gentoo Linux I used to redirect the output of a certain app to /dev/tty10 and switch to tty10 (by using Alt+F10) this is useful to keep watching the application. this doesn't work on FreeBSD. I can do # ehco hello > /dev/ttyv8 # ehco hello > /dev/ttyv9 # ehco hello > /dev/ttyva But