03-25-2011
I missed Unix Forums (check for other thread) which did have results. Thanks for the links!
Usually I don't have any luck with the (check for other threads) option but it worked well in this case. I'm interested in more of a (functional) understanding of what a console is rather than how to differentiate them visually. I noticed that when I tried to open a file with gedit or kate it would not work but emacs ( the editor with 1,000 hot keys) did open.
Can anyone tell me
what are the most common applications that are used in console mode?
and if (console is considered an application) and so on.
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sysmsg(7D) Devices sysmsg(7D)
NAME
sysmsg - system message routing to console devices
SYNOPSIS
/dev/sysmsg
DESCRIPTION
The file /dev/sysmsg routes output to a variable set of console devices. Writes to /dev/sysmsg are always directed to the system console
/dev/console, and are in addition directed to a set of auxiliary console devices managed by consadm(1M).
Only root has permission to write to this device.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsr |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Stable |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
consadm(1M), syslogd(1M) , attributes(5), console(7D)
SunOS 5.10 13 Oct 1998 sysmsg(7D)