Re: Console and Shell

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: 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 por

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 this