[H-GEN] VNC for console apps??

[Edwin Groothuis]

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On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:49:11AM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
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> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 08:48, Robert Stanford wrote:
> > > Does anybody know if there exists a program that will let a remote user
> > > view on Linux console & send keystrokes to it?  Like a text version of
> > > VNC really.
> > A program called screen would probably fill this hole.
> >From memory, screen only lets you attach to other screen sessions.  Thus
> you can not just "see what is on the console".  For example, if kernel
> messages are appearing on the console and mucking up the display you
> won't see it with screen.

Just to make it more confusing (or clear): The console is not the first
terminal (second, third, fourth etc) on your system. The console
is a terminal to which all important messages are logged. That's
why you can run programs like xconsole to see all these messages.

I would go for something like /dev/snp (Probably FreeBSD specific,
see man snp for more info).

Edwin

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