Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:29:41 -0600 (CST) | From | Aaron Ucko <> | Subject | Re: /dev/tty1 strangeness |
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>Form my original post: ># After logging onto tty1 as user or root, that terminal starts loosing >keystrokes > >Thanks to Steven S. Dick (ssd@nevets.oau.org) who replied: >> Is it possible you have two processes on tty1 both trying to read? > >At first I thought this was impossible, but remembered that the top process >I now think that top was reading stdin from tty1, disregarding the >redirection to tty9. > >My tty1 is fine when I kill top in tty9 (I have commented that line out in >inittab). > >Is this a bug in procps-1.01, or is there another way to redirect top to an >unused tty?
There are two things you can do: (1) Obtain the program `open' and replace that command with `open -c 9 top'
(2) Replace it with `top </dev/tty9 >/dev/tty9 2>/dev/tty9'
Of the two, (1) is probably better.
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