From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 6 12:11:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx3out.umbc.edu (mx3out.umbc.edu [130.85.253.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9477B37B42C for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 12:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu) Received: from irix2.gl.umbc.edu (gmiddl1@irix2.gl.umbc.edu [130.85.60.11]) by mx3out.umbc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11821; Sun, 6 May 2001 15:11:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 15:11:17 -0400 From: "G. Jason Middleton" To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Subject: /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0 In-Reply-To: <009301c0d646$37c3d690$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I commented out the following lines ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure and they still respawn themselves. What am i doing wrong? Jason On Sun, 6 May 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > > How can i cut back on the amount of these babies running i only need say > > ....2 running and i never log into the console enough to use all of them. > > > > Where is the script or file that starts them? > > If you only want one or two virtual terminals, edit the extra entries out of > /etc/ttys. Then kill off the getty processes for the now-unused virtual > terminals, and they won't respawn. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message