Console switching

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:22 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 14:40 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:27 +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> >>> Lee Revell wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What could be the problem?  How can I debug this further?
> >>> Does `chvt 1` do anything?
> >>>
> >> $ chvt 1
> >> Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> > 
> > It's a permissions problem - chvt works perfectly as root.
> 
> That's normal, does Alt-Fn work once you've got to a getty?

Yes, it does.

Lee