12-31-2012
Did you mean to use /dev/tty? /dev/console is owned by another process, owned by root. What are you trying to do? Write a message on the console? if so, try the write command. It allows you to specify both a user and a specific device as the destination for a message.
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 12-31-2012 at 07:10 AM..
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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).
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ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsr |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Stable |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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