GNU/Linux |
Debian 6.0.0(Squeeze) |
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screendump(1) |
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screendump − dump the contents of a virtual console to stdout
screendump [ N ]
The screendump command dumps the contents of virtual console N , (or the current console if N is omitted) to standard out.
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.
setterm(1)
Andries Brouwer
<aeb@cwi.nl>
Manpage by Alastair McKinstry
<mckinstry@computer.org>
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