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SCREENDUMP(1) Linux Console 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.
 

NOTES

For security reasons, screendump uses linux devices "virtual console screen" and "virtual console screen with attributes" to give access for screendump.
On pre-DevFS systems, you should 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
 
(filling in the ellipses) and give the device files appropriate permissions, or run screendump as root.
On DevFS systems, the /dev/vcc/?? devices will automatically be present.

SEE ALSO

setterm(1)
 

AUTHORS

Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
 
Manpage by Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>
2002-02-24