SCREENDUMP(1)               General Commands Manual              SCREENDUMP(1)



NAME
       screendump - dump the contents of a virtual console to stdout


SYNOPSIS
       screendump [options] [N]


DESCRIPTION
       The screendump command dumps the contents of virtual console N , (or
       the current console if N is omitted) to standard out.

       Just saying
              cat /dev/vcsN
       has a similar effect.


OPTIONS
       -V, --version
              print version number.

       -h, --help
              print this usage message.


NOTES
       For security reasons, screendump uses linux devices "virtual console
       screen" and "virtual console screen with attributes" to give access for
       screendump.

       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.


AUTHORS
       Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> Manpage by Alastair McKinstry
       <mckinstry@computer.org>


SEE ALSO
       setterm(1)

kbd                               2002-02-24                     SCREENDUMP(1)