Console and Shell

2007-01-15 Thread Kailas Ramasamy
Hi, I would like to understand how the shell is tied to the console port. When an user connects a terminal to the system via console port, a shell is started and tied to the console port (/dev/console ?). Can some someone explain how this whole process works?. It would be great if you can point

Re: Console and Shell

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Kailas Ramasamy wrote: Hi, I would like to understand how the shell is tied to the console port. When an user connects a terminal to the system via console port, a shell is started and tied to the console port (/dev/console ?). Can some someone explain how

Re: Console and Shell

2007-01-15 Thread Joseph Koshy
kr I would like to understand how the shell is tied to the kr console port. Google for 'controlling terminal'. Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by Richard Stevens is a good book for Unix basics. -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy