[Techtalk] monitoring realtime stuffs on F1 console

[John Clarke]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:14:01 -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:

> On Linuxes past I was accustomed to switching to console F1 to see what was 

This still works for me (redhat 7.3, kernel 2.4.20, xfree86 4.2.1).

> current system does not do this- when I switch to F1 there's just a plain ole 
> boring login prompt. Any notions how to make it come back? 

Maybe you didn't login on vc1.  ps ax|egrep 'tty[0-9].*bash'
(substitute whichever shell you use) should show something like this:

     8870 tty1     S      0:00 -bash

Try using the same F key as the tty number.


Cheers,

John
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