Re: [PLUG] mingetty question

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

If you would like to elimintate these processes, this can be done in
/etc/inittab. Here are the relevent lines.

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

You may delete them, or you can run something else if you like. I believe
that since these processes are in inittab, they are spawned by init, which
is the mother process that fork()s everyone else.

I generally like to have lots of consoles so I add more. The first number
is a function key, but if this bothers you, just comment them out and
reboot.

Fred

> I think tty1 through tty6 are persistent because, otherwise, there would
> be no way to provide you with a login prompt.  What I'm starting to
> wonder about is how pts/0 and so forth are spawned when an xterm is
> opened.  (Actually, one thing I just realized is that xterms don't
> prompt for a login the way the virtual terminals do.)  I know that for a
> serial console a line needs to be added to inittab to respawn a login
> prompt, but what happens when someone telnets in?

_________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group        --       http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug