On 13 December 2006 18:02, Grant wrote: > I seem to have 6 agetty processes running on my system, but I'm the > only one who ever logs into my server. How can I reduce the number of > running agetty processes?
Those are the getties sitting on your virtual consoles F1 - F6 and let you log in on text consoles if you wish so. They are defined in /etc/inittab: # TERMINALS c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux Just delete any of these lines you don't need (and reboot or do a "telinit q"). Be aware of four things: 1. If you delete all of those line above you won't be able to log in on a text console at all which is extremely inconvenient if X fails for whatever reason. 2. Those agetty processes don't really use any of your resources. It's hardly worth it to get rid of them. ;-) 3. Next time your /etc/inittab is updated by etc-update after a update world, your changes are lost. 4. If you delete the first line starting with "c1" and your system *needs* to boot into single user mode (no graphics there) because your filesystem is corrupt beyond automatic repair (or some other reason), it won't be able to. =8-O Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
