VHANGUP(8) The SuSE boot concept VHANGUP(8)NAME
Vhangup - Cause a virtually hangup on the specified terminals
SYNOPSIS
vhangup [/dev/<terminal> [/dev/<terminal>]]
DESCRIPTION
vhangup simulates a hangup on the specified terminals. Not existing device files or devices will be ignored.
EXAMPLES
vhangup /dev/tty1 /dev/tty2 /dev/tty3 /dev/tty4 /dev/tty5 /dev/tty6 /dev/ttyS1
This will replace all open file descriptors in the kernel that points to the listed ttys by a dummy that will deny further reading/writing
to the device. It also send the signals SIGHUP/SIGCONT to the processes which have file descriptors open on the listed ttys.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, 1 is returned.
SEE ALSO vhangup(2), tty(4), ttyS(4), pts(4).
COPYRIGHT
2008 Werner Fink, 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Germany.
AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
3rd Berkeley Distribution Jan 31, 2008 VHANGUP(8)
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SHOWCONSOLE(8) The SuSE boot concept SHOWCONSOLE(8)NAME
Showconsole - determines the underlying tty of stdin
Setconsole - sets the underlying tty of /dev/console
SYNOPSIS
showconsole [-n]
setconsole /dev/tty<xy> < /dev/console
DESCRIPTION
showconsole determines the underlying character device of the current stdin. This can be used on /dev/console as current character device
to get the real character device back.
setconsole sets the underlying tty of the system console /dev/console. This requires that the standard input is identical with /dev/con-
sole and exactly one argument, a valid character device is given.
OPTIONS -n Return the major and minor device numbers instead of the device file name. This can be used to asked the kernel for the major and
minor device numbers of a not existing device file in /dev.
BUGS
showconsole needs a mounted /proc file system and tries to set the controlling tty to stdin if no controlling tty is found. After reading
/proc the status of the controlling tty is restored to avoid problems with getty processes.
FILES
/proc/<pid of showconsole>/stat
the stat file of the showconsole process.
/dev/console
the system console.
SEE ALSO blogd(8), console(4), tty(4), proc(5).
COPYRIGHT
2000 Werner Fink, 2000 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
3rd Berkeley Distribution Nov 10, 2000 SHOWCONSOLE(8)
What is the point of this? Whenever I close my shell it appends to the history file without adding this. I have never seen it overwrite my history file.
# When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it
shopt -s histappend (3 Replies)