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6 conspy - virtual console spy tool
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9 conspy [ options ] [ console ]
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12 Conspy allows the user to take control of a Linux virtual console. The
13 user can see what is displayed on the console and their keystrokes are
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16 To exit from conspy press the escape key three times in quick succes‐
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20 -V, --version
21 Print the program's version and exit.
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24 Don't send keystrokes to the virtual console.
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27 If supplied, console must be a number in the range 1 .. 63, cor‐
28 responding to the virtual console device /dev/tty1 ..
29 /dev/tty63. If not supplied the currently active virtual con‐
30 sole is opened and tracked.
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33 Conspy will not pass keystrokes to a virtual console whose keyboard is
34 configured to send scan codes. X configures its keyboard like this.
35 If the terminal does not have at least 64 colours no colour will be
36 displayed. Conspy ignores the mouse. Conspy may display some non-
37 ASCII characters incorrectly. Conspy does not handle displays larger
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40 Conspy depends on terminfo and curses working correctly for your termi‐
41 nal, and sometimes they don't. Konsole is/was one example of where
42 they don't. Typing control-L will redraw the screen, which usually
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47 /dev/ttyX, /dev/vc/X
48 The characters typed are sent to this device. The latter is for
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51 /dev/vcsaX, /dev/vcc/aX
52 The display of the virtual console is read from here. The lat‐
53 ter is for devfs. It is only used if the former does not exist.
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56 Russell Stuart, <russell-conspy@stuart.id.au>.
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60Version 1.7 Aug 2009 CONSPY(1)