Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Pete Harlan
> >Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then > >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve > >the problem and help you w/ resources. ... > packages are done installing. I'm curious, is getty, mingetty, etc, even > slightly necessary? Real

Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: : >Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then : >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve : >the problem and help you w/ resources. : : Thank you for your very QUICK response. I'll d

Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
>Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve >the problem and help you w/ resources. Thank you for your very QUICK response. I'll do that once the rest of the packages are done installing. I'm cu

Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Shaleh
Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve the problem and help you w/ resources. Frederic Breitwieser wrote: > > Upon installing Debian 2.0 on my Satellite 205CDS laptop (slowly getting > rid of

Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Upon installing Debian 2.0 on my Satellite 205CDS laptop (slowly getting rid of NT everywhere!), this laptop, pretty much every 5 minutes, whips out a bunch of error messages relating to /sbin/getty, then suddenly tells me its going to "wait for 5 minutes". I'm not sure where this comes from, as I