Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Wed 05 Jun 2019 at 22:43:53 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> Gene Heskett composed on 2019-06-05 22:04 (UTC-0400):
> 
> > root@coyote:~$ locate agetty
> > /sbin/agetty
> Maybe this will be a useful clue:
> 
> In Stretch, any gettys running on vtty[1-6] are actually agettys.
> Files in /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/ are symlinks to:
> 	/lib/systemd/system/getty@service
> # ps -A | grep get
>  1021 tty3     00:00:00 agetty
>  1022 tty4     00:00:00 agetty
>  1023 tty2     00:00:00 agetty
>  1451 tty1     00:00:00 agetty
>  3932 tty6     00:00:00 agetty
> 12733 tty5     00:00:00 agetty
> 
> Why all this would tie up the serial port I don't know.

Perhaps it's Gene's braille terminal.

Cheers,
David.