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.

License

The author of conspy is Russell Stuart, and the program is subject to copyright. However you can copy and use conspy freely provided you adhere to the conditions laid out in the GNU General Public License.

Downloading

Conspy is available in the following formats:

Source code as a tar ball   conspy-1.2.tar.bz2
Debian Packages   See Here
RPM binary package   conspy-1.2-1ras.i386.rpm
RPM source package   conspy-1.2-1ras.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-01. Email: russell-conspy@stuart.id.au