[PLUG] Getty Question

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Piet van Weel wrote:

> Ok.. for some reason I'm drawing a blank on this...
> 
> I've got getty spewing lines of garbage every 5 minutes or so...
> 
> 1. How do I disable it?

Depending on your distribution it may vary but those based on SysV
(Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, ...) getty is controlled from lines in
/etc/inittab.
   Find the _*offending*_ line(s) with getty in them and comment them out.  
Danger Will Robison.  getty my be controlling your virtual terminals and 
if you disable them all you could prevent yourself from logging on.

After commenting those you are brave enough to ... restart (?) init by 
typing
	telinit Q

A better idea would be to determine why you're getting those messages and 
then fixing the problem if possible.


Good luck,
Rod
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