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monitoring on virtual terminal: HOW?

I want to have other programs than getty/login running on my virtual terminal. For example, I want to have pppstatus running on vt8, top on vt9, or a "tail -f /var/log/messages" on vt10. But I don't want to log in for that...

Furthermore, I want those to be restartet if they are accidently closed.

I remember that with an old Suse 5.0 one could monitor the installation process on vt3 or so. And during install of my Debian/GNU Linux I too have a monitor on vtXYZ.

So, somehow it must be possible to have something else than getty on a vt...

I've been searching Howtos, LDP, man-pages, info-pages, FAQs for several hours now and I didn't come any closer to a solution. Please help me!

Can I somehow tell the program on which vt it should run (just like getty is told)? Is there some tool that could run the program on a specified vt? Do you actually understand what my problem is?



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never tried it, but should work as follows
add to your /etc/inittab:

10:3:respawn:tail -f /var/log/messages>/dev/ttyv10
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it started tail but not on a (v)tty. Are you sure about /dev/ttyv10?

---Lasse
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(Answering for ahoffmann, many excuses:)
No it should (in all probability) be /dev/tty10.

-- Glenn
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Thats what I was looking for! Thanks a lot :)

Maybe I should start a HOWTO for this...

---Lasse
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Gör det... erhm do that:-)

-- Glenn