Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3254 mails)

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	Actually, your not past the level of info I requested or understand.  None 
the less, thank you.  I am with you.  
  I am not as much a newbie as I sometimes make my self out to be.  There 
are a lot of holes in my knowledge ... which as you see I am trying to 
fill.  I aspire to be a proto-hacker in the larval stage    ( search terms 
"computer geek" and "larval stage" with package kdict .)
   For example I know how to work with directories/files, create delete/ mv , 
change permissions etc.  I have also configured and compiled kernels with 
$make xconfig, make dep, make clean, make bzImage  etc, and modules and of 
course source for binaries.  But again I still consider myself a novice.  
Thanks

but still....

                   I still get the following after a regular SuSE KDM-logon 
for $who with 
Konsole
max@linux:~> who
max      :0       Sep  5 17:13 (console)
max      pts/0    Sep  5 17:13
max      pts/1    Sep  5 19:44
max@linux:~>

  obviously pts/1 is my Konsole session

But is :0   primary intial session , and  pts/0 X-server session ?
or is it that pts/0 is the xconsole for error/sys messages  <ALT>+<F10> ?
                                                        
                                                                           Max

 
	
On Thursday 05 September 2002 06:45 am, Derek Fountain wrote:
> We're way past the level of info the original poster wanted, but just to
> clarify this: what you get to when you hit <alt-Fn> is a previously opened
> *virtual* terminal. These are started at boot time and have specific device
> files: /dev/ttyX. The one, single, real console is generally on <alt-F1>:
> /dev/tty0 (or an alternative if reconfigured).
>
> The poster was refering to *pseudo* terminals, which don't exist until
> requested via the master /dev/ptmx interface. At that point the pseudo
> terminal connection is created-on-demand for the xterm or whatever to use.