Re: Bizarre getty issue
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Frederic Breitwieser wrote:
: >Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then
: >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve
: >the problem and help you w/ resources.
:
: Thank you for your very QUICK response. I'll do that once the rest of the
: packages are done installing. I'm curious, is getty, mingetty, etc, even
: slightly necessary? Realistically, I wont be using a modem... this was
: just to install debian, since I don't have my firewall working. yet ;)
getty (and its clones) provide you with a login prompt on the virtual
consoles ... if you want to login, you'll need a getty :)
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