How to set /dev/tty as living log?
 

Hi,
I found this in very old book abou UNIX administration
I came to idea to redirect output of commands in similar way, eg.
It works now. But still I have to login using /dev/tty5. I want this device to work without shell. I don't know I am clear enough. Commonly switching to /dev/tty5 ones is being welcomed and prompted to provide name and password. I want that switching to /dev/tty5 just opens plain screen - no system welcome. no prompt, no possibility to use /dev/tty5 as login device. It just should show eg. output of command as above.

That would need several modifications:

• In /etc/inittab, comment out this line:
  Code:

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  c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux

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• Create the device if need be. As done in the Slackware installer:
  Code:

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    if [ ! -r /dev/tty5 ]; then
    mknod /dev/tty5 c 4 5
    chown root:tty /dev/tty5
    chmod 620 /dev/tty5
  fi

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Good luck.

PS Caveat: you probably won't be able to scroll up or down in /dev/tty5

I suppose it is about /etc/inittab, /etc/fstab contains partition to auto mount.

No matter
is enough. I suppose kernel just open this device. The only restriction is the user has to belong to tty group.

Yes, fixed.