On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Isaac Atilano <aristophrenic at warpmail.net>wrote: > > > Maybe this example makes more sense. > From a remote ssh session, I want to run a command (startx) on virtual > console 1 (/dev/tty1) of the ssh server so that the output of startx and > X gets written to virtual console 1 and I can then exit out of the shell > that issued the command. > > I'm not sure it's possible for you to do what you're wanting to do, in part because that would potentially be a huge security hole. The ability to emit commands to another tty and the them run using someone else's credentials - bad. Or is that what you're trying to accomplish indirectly? If so - you should use 'sudo' (or su) to run commands under other credentials, and if you REALLY want your output to land on that console, then redirect stdout. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20091027/e7e43baa/attachment.htm