Catching a direct redirect to /dev/tty

Question

I\'m working on an application controller for a program that is spitting text directly to /dev/tty.

This is a production application controller that must be able to

Answer 1

The classic solution to controlling an application like this is Expect, which sets up pseudo-terminals, does logging, and drives the controlled application from a script. It comes with lots of sample scripts so you can probably just adapt one to fit your needs.