Ian Balchin wrote: > I see in top that there are always copies of getty running - 4 copies > that I can see all owned by root. > > Is this normal? > > I thought getty was to listen on the modem for incoming calls, and since > that is not going to happen perhaps I should unistall this, or is there a > way to temporarily disable this action
getty is normally running on tty1 through tty6, and anywhere else you may have it configured. In /etc/inittab you probably have something like this, usually towards the end of the file: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty1 38400 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty2 38400 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty3 38400 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty4 38400 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty5 38400 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty6 38400 This tells init to start instances of getty for each of your virtual consoles, which are accessible with ctrl-alt-f1 through ctrl-alt-f6. X usually runs on vt7 (ctrl-alt-f7). See the man pages for inittab(5) and getty(8) for details. Craig
