chaney@ms.uky.edu (Dan Chaney) (08/03/90)
Hello all. I need to associate a window with /dev/console in order to prevent cron, et al. from goofing up my root X window (background). I'm running a Sun 4.0.1 Sparc 1+ (if that matters) with the standard X stuff and xdm. I've heard there was a way to start a window as /dev/console (thus taking away all the output piped to /dev/console...) Anyone know (the/a) magic incantation so to do? Please e-mail replies, lest they be lost in a flurry of news. If there are megatonnages of replies, I'll summarize and post. Thanks for any info, -dan -- -- Daniel Chaney -- -- postmaster, newsguy, main archiver for ms.uky.edu (Univ of KY Math Sci) -- -- {uunet and the like}!ukma!chaney chaney@ms.uky.edu chaney@ukma.BITNET -- -- "I'll have time enough for sleep when I'm dead and in the ground" --
tim@cs.columbia.edu (Timothy Jones) (08/03/90)
Try "xterm -C". It may or may not work... Tim -- Timothy Jones tim@cs.columbia.edu Department of Computer Science ...!rutgers!cs.columbia.edu!tim Columbia University tim%cs.columbia.edu@cuvmb.bitnet
chaney@ms.uky.edu (Dan Chaney) (08/03/90)
chaney@ms.uky.edu (Me) wrote: >Hello all. > I need to associate a window with /dev/console in order to >prevent cron, et al. from goofing up my root X window (background). Thanks...I got the answer. Classic case of reading the wrong FM page. Oh well...who would expect an easy answer when dealing with X pkgs? -dan (Who cannot see the forest for those damn trees....) -- -- Daniel Chaney -- -- postmaster, newsguy, main archiver for ms.uky.edu (Univ of KY Math Sci) -- -- {uunet and the like}!ukma!chaney chaney@ms.uky.edu chaney@ukma.BITNET -- -- "I'll have time enough for sleep when I'm dead and in the ground" --