Linux notes

conspy

This lets you connect to the virtual consoles. These are the text consoles you see when Linux boots before X or xdm is started. These are the getty processes that you see in the process list.

To exit hit Esc key three times in quick succession. Hit Ctrl-L to refresh the screen if it gets out of sync.

This will show the tty1 default boot console:

conspy 1

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