Conspy - remote control of Linux virtual consoles

Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and send keystrokes to it. It only works with Linux, as far as I know.

It is rather like VNC, but where VNC takes control of a GUI conspy takes control of a text mode virtual console. Unlike VNC, conspy does not require a server to be installed prior to being used.

Documentation

Sparse. There is a man page, and a ChangeLog.

Copyright and License

Conspy is copyright © 2005,2006 Russell Stuart.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Downloading

Conspy is available in the following formats:

Source code as a tar ball   conspy-1.3.tar.bz2
Debian Packages   See Here
RPM binary package   conspy-1.3-1ras.i386.rpm
RPM source package   conspy-1.3-1ras.src.rpm

The Red Hat binary may not work for you. If not download the source rpm and rebuild it with:
    rpmbuild --rebuild conspy-X.YY.src.rpm
and installing the resulting binary.

 


Russell Stuart, 2006-Jan-09. Email: russell-conspy@stuart.id.au