monitoring /dev/console /dev/tty

JasonCzerak — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:44:53 GMT

Has anyone figured out how to monitor /dev/console?

Re: monitoring /dev/console /dev/tty

araitz — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:28:27 GMT

Can you be more specific as to why you want to monitor /dev/console and what you want to monitor for?

If you have root, in Python you can use read() or os.read() to open /dev/console, which you could use in a scripted input:

f = open('/dev/console', 'r')
# do stuff like read()