On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Matthew Clark wrote: > just wondering about how one would go about starting an application on a > local console. for instance something like mysqlclient or mutella etc..... so > that you could access it by hitting ctrl-alt-f9 for instance (no login > prompt, instead application prompt).
man openvt Very useful program. > would there be any problems with applications requiring shell variables, then > again this could be circumvented by running a script that calls bash (for > example) followed by the application to run, couldn't it? Yes, that would work fine. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
