[ale] top on console
Jim Popovitch
yahoo at jimpop.com
Mon Nov 19 21:43:59 EST 2007
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 20:08 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 20:38 -0500, Michael Still wrote:
> > I suppose you can modify /etc/inittab and replace the getty on the first VC.
> >
> > Maybe replace this:
> > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> > with this:
> > 1:2345:respawn:/bin/sudo -u nobody /usr/bin/top
> >
> > I haven't done this or tested it though.
>
> Thanks Mike, that worked well.
Follow-up question: Is there anyway to prevent the console from
blanking? I do understand why it blanks, but this is a vmware session
and the host already has a screen saver. ;-)
Thx,
-Jim P.
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