Re: confusing processes

[bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström)]

Amish Rughoonundon <axr0284@rit.edu> writes:

> 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

"getty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the
/bin/login command. It is normally invoked by init(8)."

As you can see, there's one for each of your virtual consoles.