Re: confusing processes
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:28:06PM -0500, Amish Rughoonundon wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering where all these processes /sbin/getty ... came from since I
did not start them
. Anybody could enlighten me. Thanks
Amish
ps g
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1346 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
1347 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
1348 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
1349 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
1350 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
1351 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
16852 pts/0 Ss 0:00 -bash
16889 pts/0 T 0:00 emacs proftpd.conf
16921 pts/0 R+ 0:00 ps g
The getty processes wait for you to login on the virtual terminals
(tty1 through tty6) that you can access with alt+f(1-6) or
ctrl+alt+f(1-6) from X. If you don't use virtual terminals you can turn
some or all of them off by editing /etc/inittab. Look for lines like
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
and comment out ttys you don't use.
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