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.
