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====== Script with autostart function and output to defined console.======

There is instruction, how to do script output to console 2,3, or another, and autostart them on computer switch on.

In that case we cannot put script start in /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, as always, because in that stage agetty, and consoles not activated, and therefore, script at that stage cannot do output to non-existing at that time, console, therefore, we put it in crontab with special preffix:

'' **crontab -e** ''

and in crontab, we write: 

''**@reboot /path/to/yourscript.scr**  ''

script itself have construction like that:

''**#!/bin/sh tail -f /data/recv.log > /dev/tty2** ''

where __/dev/tty2__ is __console 2__, /dev/tty3 is console 3, and so on.


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 --- //[[wiki:user:wisedraco|John Ciemgals]] 2013/10/01 22:29//
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