ronniek@cs.tamu.edu (Ronnie Killough) (03/08/90)
On the Utilities menu, there is an option called 'Console' which brings up a Console window for error messages, etc. What I'd like to do is have this come up automatically when anyone logs in on the console. Several questions. One, I need to know how to bring up a Console window (i.e. - a command equivalent to the Utilities menu selection). I can give an option to the Terminal command, but an interesting thing happened when I issued the following command: Terminal -Console -WinLocX 50 -WinLocY 4 & or something like that....Terminal windows started reproducing themselves repeatedly...I had to catch up and kill each one until finally they all died....it was weird. Is there a bug in the Terminal command or something or did I do something wrong? Second, I need to do a couple of checks to assure that a new console window isn't brought up each time they open a new terminal. One is to check if they are indeed on the console, and the second is to see if they 'just logged in.' Perhaps this could be something like, check to see what the current ttyp # is and pop it only if it is 1 or whatever... will this work? How do you do it? Any other ideas? Thanks. Ronnie Killough ronniek@cs.tamu.edu