About /dev/console!

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sat Apr 27 22:09:37 UTC 2013


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 06:56:03PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> 2013/4/27 Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>
> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What is used  /dev/console! file for  (note exclamation mark) ?
> >
> > It's documented, type "man console" to get the ancient and well respoceted
> > notes better than we can explain it here.
> 
> Shame on me, thanks, it happens man-pages were not installed :P

Do you have a file literally called "/dev/console!" (with exclamation mark) ?

Rich.

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