Re: GDM, getty and VTs
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Hi,
Am Sa den 14. Nov 2009 um 15:45 schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> it???s been a long-standing tradition on Linux to have 6 started getty
> processes, in tty1 to tty6. However this doesn???t correspond anymore to
> the way we use our machines.
Yes. I think so.
> To make things worse, the latest GDM upstream version doesn???t include a
> tty manager anymore. Each started X server will simply use the first
> available VT.
That will be a bug in my eyes.
One of the first thing I do on a new installed debian host is to disable
getty on tty1 as I will always have the last log messages on that tty
and no way to wipe it while logging in. The other ttys (2-6) are changed
to use mingetty and I am happy quite often to have it at all as I refuse
logging in as root with X. (And I think everybody logging in into X as
root should get punishment at all. I know that the RedHat people do so
but I am not RedHat and we aren't ;-)
However, please do not refer so often to RedHat, that is just an other
distribution. The last shitty thing I remember percolating to debian was
that .localdomain problem which was completely unrelated to the problem
but made many problems.
Regards
Klaus
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