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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Multiple Terminals Post 59850 by Perderabo on Sunday 2nd of January 2005 08:32:12 PM
Old 01-02-2005
Sheesh....where to start???

Using a dumb terminal has nothing to do with networks at all. And a dumb terminal isn't "remote". It is local, even if it's on a different continent. The kernel will be talking to a tty device on the local computer. This device will be connected by a cable to dumb terminal or a modem. But the tty device (or serial port) is local. It will have a name in /dev. Maybe /dev/tty01 or something.

I have never done this under Linux. Under HP-UX you use getty while under Solaris, it's ttymon. It's amazing that this thread got this long without anyone mentioning which distro of Linux. But looking at redhat 7.2, I find several things by typing "man -k getty". "man agetty" looks promising. Maybe that would be a place to start. And why not mention your distro to save some time if a linux expert shows up?
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

tty

TTY(4)							     Linux Programmer's Manual							    TTY(4)

NAME

       tty - controlling terminal

DESCRIPTION

       The  file /dev/tty is a character file with major number 5 and minor number 0, usually of mode 0666 and owner.group root.tty.  It is a syn-
       onym for the controlling terminal of a process, if any.

       In addition to the ioctl() requests supported by the device that tty refers to, the following ioctl() request is supported:

       TIOCNOTTY
	      Detach the current process from its controlling terminal, and remove it from its current process group, without attaching  it  to  a
	      new  process  group  (that  is,  set  its  process group ID to zero).  This ioctl() call only works on file descriptors connected to
	      /dev/tty; this is used by daemon processes when they are invoked by a user at a terminal.  The process attempts to open /dev/tty; if
	      the open succeeds, it detaches itself from the terminal by using TIOCNOTTY, while if the open fails, it is obviously not attached to
	      a terminal and does not need to detach itself.

FILES

       /dev/tty

SEE ALSO

       mknod(1), chown(1), getty(1), termios(3), console(4), ttys(4)

Linux								    1992-01-21								    TTY(4)
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