On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Ian Balchin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
Ian,
'man getty' produces (among other things) :
DESCRIPTION
getty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the
/bin/login command. It is normally
invoked by init(8).
Does that answer your question? Look at your /etc/inittab and
check to see how many times getty is set to spawn. You should see that
many instances on your system.
Regards,
Jor-el
Note : It doesnt hurt to RTFM.
