Re: [PLUG] mingetty question

[LeRoy Cressy <leroy@lrcressy.com>]

You can set the terminals and the getty that you are using by editing 
/etc/inittab.  This is what mine looks like:

As you can see you can set getty to just operate on as many or as few 
consoles as you want.  The respawn makes the getty reactivate the login 
prompt when the user logs out.

Paul wrote:
> 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?
>
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