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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2000 23:33:16 -0500
From:      Mark Shirley <mark@entropynet.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Q] ps -a
Message-ID:  <20000130233316.E350@cyberfrg.access.one.net>
In-Reply-To: <3894FA66.D5892911@attglobal.net>; from youlgok@attglobal.net on Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 09:58:49PM -0500
References:  <3894FA66.D5892911@attglobal.net>

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i suggest a "man getty" to fully understand this.

they are processes for a program that waits for someone to login to the tty*'s
  


On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 09:58:49PM -0500, Youlgok wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
> 
> This is newbie question.  What do these processes mean?
> 
> > ps -a
> 
>   403  v1  Is+    0:00.11 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
>   404  v2  Is+    0:00.10 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2
>   405  v3  Is+    0:00.11 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3
>   406  v4  Is+    0:00.10 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4
>   407  v5  Is+    0:00.11 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5
>   408  v6  Is+    0:00.10 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6
>   409  v7  Is+    0:00.10 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7
> 
> 
> FreeBSD 3.3-R, and only one user logged in.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -Paul
> 
> 
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