Re: Runiing processes. What are these?

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@donut.mit.edu>]

Christian Dysthe <cdysthe@bigfoot.com> writes:
CD> I was looking at running processes. Found these: 
CD> 
CD>   199   2 S    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 
CD>   200   3 S    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 
CD>   201   4 S    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 
CD>   202   5 S    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 
CD>   203   6 S    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
CD> 
CD> Why are all these running, and do they all have to run?

Well, they provide login prompts on tty2..6.  If you log in on one of
these VCs at least occasionally then yeah, you probably want them
running.  They're started directly out of /etc/inittab.

(I run getty on tty1..9, xdm on tty10, and gettyps on ttyS1 to run a
VT320.  This setup works well for me, even though it's kind of
atypical.  :-)

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