Kris Reilly on Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:02:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] mingetty question


inittab respawns them so that you have those terminals to log on to
locally.

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 13:51, Weissman, Gary wrote:
> on a redhat 8.0 box,
> 
> # ps -aux
> 
> gives among other things:
> 
> root       544  0.0  0.3  1316  404 tty2     S    Jan21   0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty2
> root       545  0.0  0.3  1316  404 tty3     S    Jan21   0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty3
> root       546  0.0  0.3  1316  404 tty4     S    Jan21   0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty4
> root       547  0.0  0.3  1316  404 tty5     S    Jan21   0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty5
> root       548  0.0  0.3  1316  404 tty6     S    Jan21   0:00
> /sbin/mingetty tty6
> 
> 
> why do these processes persist days after the logons are closed?  only
> on-site logins are behaving like this.  remote logins are cleanly closed.
> 
> advice?
> 
> thanks,
> gary
> 
> 
> 
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