On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:
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> Hello Mike,
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> Each Konsole session uses a pts, which is a pseudo terminal. Command
> line programs need this to communicate. On some other Unixes they are
> called pty0, pty1, etc. On Linux there is a directory in /dev called
> pts, and each new session creates a new (temporary) entry in that
> directory starting with 0. So the first session is connected to
> /dev/pts/0, the second session is connected to /dev/pts/1, etc.
I do not think that was really the question. I think he was really asking
who is running /bin/cat. It seems to be a broken kde thing. I see it here
with NO xterms open. It would seem kde is trying to help in some way.
Just a guess though.
> JBB
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> Sunday, September 16, 2001, 9:31:35 AM, you wrote:
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> MB> I'm running an up2dated Seawolf installation, and am currently in an
> MB> X session, running KDE.
>
> MB> When I open up a Konsole session, and do a "w" to list online users, I see
> MB> myself on tty1, from whence I ran startx to get KDE going.
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> MB> I then see myself on pts/0 running /bin/cat and myself on pts/1, running w.
>
> MB> What the heck is that pts/0 session doing, and from where did it come?
>
> MB> I also noticed this behavior when I had the system booting in runlevel 5.
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