REMOTE-TTY(1)

📦 version 4.0, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💖 REMOTE-TTY 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the remote-tty page from the General Commands Manual — section 1, obviously, we're in the big leagues now. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

remote-tty — the way you connect to a ttysrv serial console instance. no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

remote-tty [-l LoginName] [-7] [-r] socket

that's the whole vibe. three lil flags and a socket path. we move. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so remote-tty is the frontend for the remote-tty daemon. like, the daemon is the backstage crew and this is the girl on stage. 🎀

normally you don't even call it directly — you get here through rconsole. iykyk.

what it does: it connects to the backend ttysrv process over a Unix socket, and then it lets you do two iconic things:

  • view what's happening on the serial console 👀
  • interact with it, like actually talk back 💬

it's giving "i'm just here to watch" but also "i'm gonna type something." both. main character energy fr fr.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • socket — the full path to the Unix socket for the ttysrv instance you wanna connect to. like, the whole path, don't be shy. that's your destination bestie 🫶
  • -l loginname — specify the login name to use. and if you don't specify one? it just defaults to your username. no drama, it already knows. ✨
  • -r — set restricted mode. this one's the "behave yourself" flag 🚫. in restricted mode you're not allowed to:
    • change the logging status
    • suspend remote-tty
    • set line options

it's giving supervised visit. lowkey necessary sometimes.

  • -7 — set 7bit mode. seven bits. that's the whole description. it's a mood, honestly.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, bestie, they're all connected:

(and yes, this page is literally linking to itself. iconic behavior. we love a self-aware queen 💅)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

rtty was written by Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org> — legend, honestly.

this manual page was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> for the Debian project. and the tea ☕ is: it may be used by others too, so you're not in trouble, go wild.

and that's the whole page!! this version dropped on May 23, 2006, and it lives in the General Commands Manual for REMOTE-TTY(1). mwah 💋 go connect to something, bestie. 🦋✨

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