remote-tty(1) [debian man page]

REMOTE-TTY(1)						      General Commands Manual						     REMOTE-TTY(1)

NAME

       remote-tty - connect to a ttysrv serial console instance

SYNOPSIS

       remote-tty [-l LoginName] [-7] [-r] socket

DESCRIPTION

       remote-tty  is  the  frontend  for the remote-tty daemon. It is normally invoked using rconsole.  It connects to the backend ttysrv process
       over a Unix socket and allows the user to view what's happening on the serial console and interact with it.

OPTIONS

       socket The full path to the Unix socket for the ttysrv instance to connect to.

       -l loginname
	      Specify the login name to use. Defaults to the username if not specified.

       -r     Set restricted mode; don't allow changing of logging status, suspending of remote-tty or setting of line options.

       -7     Set 7bit mode.

SEE ALSO

       rconsole(1), remote-tty(1), ttysrv(8).

AUTHOR

       rtty was written by Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>. This manual page was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> for the Debian project
       (but may be used by others).

								   May 23, 2006 						     REMOTE-TTY(1)

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(2) requests supported by the device that tty refers to, the ioctl(2) request TIOCNOTTY is supported.

   TIOCNOTTY
       Detach the calling process from its controlling terminal.

       If the process is the session leader, then SIGHUP and SIGCONT signals are sent to the foreground process group and  all	processes  in  the
       current session lose their controlling tty.

       This ioctl(2) call only works on file descriptors connected to /dev/tty.  It 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

       chown(1), mknod(1), ioctl(2), termios(3), console(4), tty_ioctl(4), ttyS(4), agetty(8), mingetty(8)

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2003-04-07								    TTY(4)