From: Matthew Gream (mgream@acacia)
Date: 10/04/92 

From: mgream@acacia (Matthew Gream)
Subject: Re: Q: What is /usr/bin/doshell good for ???
Date: 5 Oct 1992 04:25:53 GMT

Wolfram Schlickenrieder (schli@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:

: The subject says it all: I found /usr/bin/doshell, but I
: didn't find any manpage for it. What the hack does it do?

 It spawns a shell on (any) tty, more specifically you can use it to
run shells off tty's you dont have getty running on, I do this quite
often ( getty on tty1,2,3 and my rc.local spawns a shell on tty4 in
the fashion '/usr/bin/doshell /dev/tty4 /bin/tcsh &'.

 Hope that helps.