Re: Runiing processes. What are these?
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 09:51:30AM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at running processes. Found these:
>
> 199 2 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
> 200 3 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
> 201 4 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
> 202 5 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
> 203 6 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
>
> Why are all these running, and do they all have to run?
> I use Xisp to connect to my ISP.
These are the getty's for your virtual consoles (the ones you access
with ALT+F#). They are defined in /etc/inittab. If you run X and don't
use the console a lot, then you should be in runlevel 5 which only runs
1 or 2 (can't remember) getty's/consoles. Either way you need atleast
one running or you wont be able to login from the console at all with
something like xdm.
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