console(7d) [opensolaris man page]

console(7D)							      Devices							       console(7D)

NAME

       console - STREAMS-based console interface

SYNOPSIS

       /dev/console

DESCRIPTION

       The  file  /dev/console refers to the system console device. /dev/console should be used for interactive purposes only. Use of /dev/console
       for logging purposes is discouraged; syslog(3C) or msglog(7D) should be used instead.

       The identity of this device depends on the EEPROM or NVRAM settings in effect at the most recent system	reboot;  by  default,  it  is  the
       ``workstation  console'' device consisting of the workstation keyboard and frame buffer acting in concert to emulate an ASCII terminal (see
       wscons(7D)).

       Regardless of the system configuration, the console device provides  asynchronous serial driver semantics so that, in conjunction with  the
       STREAMS line discipline module ldterm(7M), it supports the termio(7I) terminal interface.

SEE ALSO

       syslog(3C), termios(3C), ldterm(7M), termio(7I), msglog(7D), wscons(7D)

NOTES

       In  contrast  to  pre-SunOS 5.0 releases, it is no longer possible to redirect I/O intended for /dev/console to some other device. Instead,
       redirection now applies to the workstation console device using a revised programming interface (see wscons(7D)). Since the system  console
       is normally configured to be the work station console, the overall effect is largely unchanged from previous releases.

       See  wscons(7D)	for  detailed  descriptions  of  control  sequence  syntax, ANSI control functions, control character functions and escape
       sequence functions.

SunOS 5.11							    23 Apr 1999 						       console(7D)

CONSCONTROL(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    CONSCONTROL(8)

NAME

     conscontrol -- control physical console devices

SYNOPSIS

     conscontrol [list]
     conscontrol mute on | off
     conscontrol add | delete console
     conscontrol set | unset console

DESCRIPTION

     The conscontrol utility is used to examine and modify the physical devices which back the virtual console devices.  If no arguments (or only
     the list command) are specified, the current console settings are shown.

     There are two types of logical consoles; a high level console which is represented by /dev/console, and a low level console.  The low level
     console is used for kernel printf(9) and ddb(4) debugger support, while the high level console is used by user programs like syslogd(8).
     Multiple device support is implemented only for the low level console; the high level console is set to the first device in the console list.

     Multiple console support may be invoked by passing the kernel the -D flag from the boot loader, or by using conscontrol to change the list of
     console devices after the system has booted.

     The following options are available:

     add | delete console
	     Add or delete a physical device from the logical console.	The device must support low-level console operations.  Adding a device
	     will place it at the front of the list of console devices; the first device is used for the high level console.

	     The console argument is the name of a console device in /dev; the name of the directory may be omitted.

     mute on | off
	     Change the state of console muting.  All console output is suppressed when console muting is on.

     set | unset console
	     Set or unset the virtual console.	When unset, output from the system, such as the kernel printf(9), always goes out to the real main
	     console.  When set, it goes to another.  This is an interface to the tty ioctl TIOCCONS.

SEE ALSO

     sio(4), syscons(4), tty(4), vt(4), boot(8), loader(8)

HISTORY

     The conscontrol utility first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS

     Jonathan Lemon

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