Questions tagged [tty]
A representation of a device that asynchronously transmits and receives serial data.
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Logins and logouts history on linux
I am trying to look for the history of logins and logout on Unix systems: on Linux and OSX.
I found that there's the wtmp file which logs the history of the login and logouts. However, I am still ...
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Do the input queue and output queue belong to the terminal device, its driver, or line discipline?
In APUE, where should the input queue and output queue (shown in the first figure) appear in the second figure? For example,
in "actual device"
in "terminal device driver"
in "terminal line ...
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How to make `tty` work in .bash_profile
I have the following in my ~/.bash_profile in order to try to make GPG work nicely:
export GPG_TTY="`tty`"
But when I open a new shell, I get the following:
$ echo $GPG_TTY
not a tty
However, if ...
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Blink when do Clear/Ctrl-l in console/tty
I've noticed that if we use clear or ctrl-l to clean screen in console/tty, the prompt will do a quick blink, how would we avoid this? maybe make it clear screen but do not affect prompt itself.
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Terminal output not displayed for certain commands
I'm having a weird problem on Ubuntu 18.04 (Desktop) where certain commands don't display output to the terminal when they are run when they definitely should. I can still capture the output of the ...
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Send program's serial output to pseudo-terminal used by serial sniffer such as jpnevulator
I am running an application that communicates through a real serial port e.g. /dev/ttyS0 to a remote device. I can configure this application to use /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, etc., by passing the ...
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Can I log user input and program output separately for a terminal session?
I wish I could make script work like this:
❯ script --user=call.log --prog=response.log
Script started
❯ echo foo
foo
❯ exit
Script done
❯ cat call.log
echo foo
❯ cat response.log
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Why application does not run from SCREEN without delay?
Suppose we need to run application in screen and keep it running when screen exits. The following command does the job, but only if "sleep 1" is appended to it. Why it does not work without "sleep 1"?
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Is this output from “who -a” normal?
This does not look normal to me:
who -a
system boot 2018-09-04 11:59
LOGIN tty1 2018-09-04 11:59 685 id=tty1
run-level 5 2018-09-04 11:59
user + pts/...
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tty1 missing login prompt
I have a clean Debian Stretch installation. It used to be the case that after booting I would end up on tty1 with a login prompt, and after logging X is started. I wanted to automate the logging in (...
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What causes xserver output to go blank when switching to tty console?
I am trying to run two monitors using two graphic cards. The first monitor is used for TTY, the second monitor is used to launch xserver.
When I launch xserver, I still have my other screen showing ...
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Specify tty numbers
As described here on can change the number of tty. However how can I configure it that I have only tty7,...,tty10 (and tty1 to tty6 are disabled)?
I usually use only tty7 upwards because pressing Ctr+...
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RS485: ioctl: ttyS1 not a tty device
I have a board with UART, and an external converter to RS485. It sits at /dev/ttyS1. The converter requires that I put the UART RTS pin to high when sending and to low when receiving. I can achieve ...
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Configure tty to prompt password for specific user
If I switch to a tty, say tty3, it asks me for a username and then for the corresponding password.
How can I achieve, that (only on tty3) it asks me just for a password for a pre-defined user name (...
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Thermal printer only print after send a second output data to tty port
I have a PCI Serial Card installed on a POS computer and I'm trying to install an old thermal printer in it. The test command ls > /dev/ttyS4 works well, but only after the second time I send it. For ...
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What obstacles are there to “move” a program to Tmux?
Suppose there is a program mc ran by bash in terminal iTerm. The /dev/tty is exposed by iTerm, the three file descriptors 0, 1, 2 are connected to that device (I know that Bash opens /dev/tty, while a ...
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How to use external monitor through HDMI without X / graphical environment?
I'm running Arch Linux on a laptop. I usually log in to the TTY console and only startx when I need to. I have an HDMI output and would like to use an external monitor. It works fine with xrandr but ...
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Why is root always logged in from ttyS0 (even after system reboot)? [closed]
I am continuously seeing root in the output of the w command on a virtual machine hosted on the cloud. I have restarted the machine several times and even tried sending CtrlAltDel from the OpenNebula ...
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Why does my serial port give a response without a loopback cable?
I'm new to using serial ports, and I have a loopback cable for serial on a Centos 7 machine. I have something in python that tests the port, but I've found that the program returns the expected ...
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Lightdm: Starting the Desktop Environment Depending on Which User Logged In
I'd like to set up a user account (lets call it userA) that, on login, instead of starting the desktop environment (Budgie), it goes to a TTY. Having the inverse behavior (starting at the TTY first ...
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Blank screen on raspberry pi on tty1
I have a raspberry pi 3 with a minimal version of Debian stretch installed. The serial output works fine, however, I can't get any output via HDMI. There is actually an HDMI output (monitor is having ...
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Software flow control: why TX is blocked on terminal?
Why terminal cannot send data after ^S was pressed?
I have always thought that ^S is used by terminal to tell tty driver that tty driver must not transmit data from application TO terminal (when it is ...
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How to give a tty a mode other than 640 and have it persist through reboot
I have an embedded device (Nvidia Jetson TX2 running Ubuntu 16.04) in a carrier board and need to use the serial port. The serial port on the carrier board maps to ttyS0 which by default is owned by ...
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How to restrict a user from using tty?
i was wondering if it is possible to force log out a user (anyone other than root) when trying to login via tty (ctrl+tab+f1/f2/f3..). The user should be able to use pts with no problems.
Using CentOS ...
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Linux VT supports 8 colors but there are actual 16 distict ones. Why is so that?
According to Wiki's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#8-bit article there are 8 "Standard colors" and 8 "High-intensity colors". When I checked terminal capability of the Linux' virtual ...
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Why does ssh allocate a tty on server side?
Basically when you run an interactive program on the server you need to use ssh -t instead of ssh. For example:
This works: ssh -t user@server top.
This doesn't work: ssh user@server top.
Question ...
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Unable to interact or switch tty's, but SysRQ+O and SysRQ+B works. What is that status?
A computer running Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia 64-Bit on the MATE desktop hung up while I was absent for a few minutes, leaving tty3 open. The graphical desktop was only active on tty7.
Firefox, running ...
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How to remove sshd pts processes in status D without restarting servers
Why are these sshd-pts processes stuck in status D? It seems the system load averages are increasing due to these processes. How can I remove them without restarting my server.
(add ppid and etime)
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PING token missed after un-successful Bulk OUT transfer
I'm trying to send a large amount of data(~15 Mb) from Host to Device over ttyACM3. I have used "cat" command for sending the data from host.
Host side: cat ./pattern.bin > /dev/ttyACM3
Device ...
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Data loss over ttyACM* when 'cat' command is used for data transfer
I have a development board which will have 3 ACM interfaces when connected to Ubuntu host and i want to transfer data from Host to Device over ttyACM3.
I have followed the following procedure for ...
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Determine if process was launched directly from a terminal window or programmatically as a child process
If a user runs a process from a terminal, is it possible to tell?
Compared to if the process was launch from a program, where that program was launched from a terminal.
The use case is if it's run by ...
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Keyboard shortcuts in the virtual terminal
Is there any way of configuring keyboard shortcuts in the Linux virtual console?
For example, if I go to tty1 then press the key combination Ctrl+Alt+H, I would like the script /usr/bin/hello.sh to ...
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PC speaker beep and messy terminal font due to dd if=/dev/sda?
When running
sudo dd if=/dev/sda
the internal PC speaker makes sounds. Also all fonts, even the prompt and typing input has different characters such as "♡" or "•".
If you need to know more, ...
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Stuck at login loop while tty and recovery mode terminal works fine
I am having linux mint 18. I accidentally removed /bin/bash. So just after removing it I changed the default shell of the user from terminal (from /bin/bash to /bin/sh and /bin/sh links to dash) in /...
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How to check if the current shell session is in the gui or the tty
Which environment setting in the zsh shell will allow me to find whether I am in the x-server or if I am in the console? I am trying to find a way to implement having different setting in my .zshrc ...
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How to use write command to send message to user in debian stretch
who command show that xyz user is on tty2.
$ who
xyz tty2 2018-06-22 08:18 (:0)
I trying send message to xyz using write xyz command. But it does not shows on terminal.
When I run tty ...
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How to boot directly into GUI without going through tty
I recently did dnf update and it uninstalled gnome, so I did dnf groupInstall "Fedora Workstation". This restored gnome but every time I boot up, I have to login from the console and use startx. Any ...
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Redirecting a string to current TTY
I have some code:
char *tty_name = ttyname(STDIN_FILENO);
char command[255] = "/usr/sbin/writevt -t "; strcpy(stpcpy(command + 21, tty_name), " -T ' \r'"); system(command);
It writes a "space" and a ...
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Some confused concept: ptmx and tty
All the following commands run in my debian terminal.
ls /dev |grep ptmx
/dev/ptmx
ls /dev/pts
0 1 ptmx
What is the difference between /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts/ptmx?
ls /dev/tty* |sort
/dev/...
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Does TTY always get used when we open any terminal? [duplicate]
I have been trying to understand how the TTY device driver works on a Linux machine for a few days now and still can't wrap my head around the idea.
When we open a terminal to ssh to a server, I ...
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What does this stream of characters represent (when using unbuffer)?
I'm using unbuffer to run a command that expects to be run within a tty. However it's returning the following:
[?1049h[?1049l[?12l[?25h(B[?12l[?25happ: empty picture
What do these characters ...
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Does systemd not protect processes against acquiring a controlling terminal?
man 7 daemon
When a traditional SysV daemon starts, it should execute the following steps as part of the initialization. Note that these steps are
unnecessary for new-style daemons (see ...
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what relations are between my current controlling terminal and `/dev/tty`?
On Lubuntu 18.04, I run a shell in lxterminal. Its controlling terminal is the current pseudoterminal slave:
$ tty
/dev/pts/2
I would like to know what relations are between my current controlling ...
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TTYS config problem
I set my ttyS5 to be:
stty 1152000 cs8 -parenb crtscts -echo -F /dev/ttyS5
And shorted my RS232 output(Tx<->Rx) to see if I can send and receive massage using:
cat /dev/ttyS5&
echo Hello >...
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Are all the slaves paired with the same master?
In bash in lxterminal
$ tty
/dev/pts/2
$ ls /dev/ptmx -l
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 May 26 09:38 /dev/ptmx
On Ubuntu, is there only one master for all the processes, and all the slaves are paired ...
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Do the output of command `tty` and the file `/dev/tty` both refer to the controlling terminal of the current bash process?
From man tty
tty - print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input
$ tty
/dev/pts/2
From APUE:
Historically, the name of the controlling terminal in most versions of the UNIX ...
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Auto startx before login on FreeBSD
This problem is driving me crazy!
I use "/etc/ttys" on FreeBSD to configure the commands that are executed when getty is executed.
This is the relevant line of my config file /etc/ttys:
ttyv8 "/...
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What happens when I forget to logout in TTY?
This is something I have asking myself for some time.
Imagine the following:
I press CTRL+ALT+F1 to switch to TTY1
I login there and execute a command
I switch back to xorg with CTRL+ALT+F7
I forget ...
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udevadm rule works using “udevadm test” but not with “udevadm trigger”
I have created a simple rule called "99-usb.rules" that simply names a tty port of a specific device
KERNEL=="ttyACM*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2341", NAME="mydevice"
This rule works fine when I run a ...
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Installing Kali Linux on Hp Omen 15
I have been trying to install Kali Linux Rolling amd64 on HP Omen 15 without success. First, neither the WIFI nor the desktop were working, and a lot of googling turned out useless. Then I got the ...
