Re: [CentOS-devel] /dev/pts/??

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Michel Donais wrote:

In Centos or RHEL terminal devices are created as /dev/pts/1 .../2 .../3 etc. On Some others Unix they are defines as dev/tty01 ..../tty02 .../tty03 How do I can get theses terminals identites in Centos when I open a Terminal of any kind?

Do you mean this:

[root@lisse root]# tty /dev/pts/5

tty is used for console terminals pts is used for 'virtual/pseudo' terminals (like created by ssh or screen)

There are other character terminal devices that are used for specific purposes, like ttyS for serial ports.