[ubuntu-in] Inittab ttys

Prashanth Mohan prashmohan at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 14:49:26 BST 2006


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Hello,

I have commented out all except 2 terminals for my system (in my inittab
file):
# Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System,
# so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X.
#
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
#3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
#4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
#5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
#6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6


However, when I start the system, all I get all 6 terminals active. I am
on Ubuntu Edgy Eft, which uses the upstart initialising system instead
of sysvinit. Could it be because of that?

How do I ensure that only 2 getty terminals are started?

Regards,
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Prashanth Mohan
http://prashblog.com
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