[clug] tty & who

[Simon Oxwell]

A pts is pseudo-terminal - in this case, it's the virtual terminal that the
window manager has created for your shell to run in, hence why it's
returned by a command in that shell.

A tty is physical terminal - in this case, tty7 is 'terminal' X11 is
running on, and that you used to log in to the computer, hence why it's
returned by the 'who' command.

Try this link out:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21280/difference-between-pts-and-tty


Simon

On 26 September 2017 at 22:44, Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) via linux <
linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> "tty" says that _pts4_ displays fish.
> Yet "who" says that I'm on line _tty7_.
> What does this mean?
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