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| SCREENDUMP(1) | General Commands Manual | SCREENDUMP(1) |
NAME¶
screendump - dump the contents of a virtual console to stdout
SYNOPSIS¶
screendump [ N ]
DESCRIPTION¶
The screendump command dumps the contents of virtual console N , (or the current console if N is omitted) to standard out.
Just saying
cat /dev/vcsN
has a similar effect.
NOTES¶
For security reasons, screendump uses linux devices "virtual console screen" and "virtual console screen with attributes" to give access for screendump.
Ensure these files exist, using
cd /dev for i in 0 1 2 3 ...; do
mknod vcs$i c 7 $i
mknod vcsa$i c 7 `expr 128 + $i`
done
mknod vcs$i c 7 $i
mknod vcsa$i c 7 `expr 128 + $i`
done
(filling in the ellipses) and give the device files appropriate permissions, or run screendump as root.
SEE ALSO¶
| 2002-02-24 | kbd |