inittab

inittab

[Andrew Langdon-Davies]

Good morning,

Following is from /etc/inittab on a client running Slackware-9.0.

# These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode:
c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
c7:12345:respawn:/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08

The last line is added by me. Sure enough, I get a display on vt08 from 
the server, which is running Mandrake-9.2. So far, so good. The two 
things I cannot work out, however many times I re-read man inittab, are
1. How do I stop the local X system from giving me a login screen? (it 
comes up on vt02)
2. Why have I not got any text consoles? (they are all just black with a 
blinking cursor).
Thank-you all very much in advance,
Andrew

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Re: inittab

[Onur Kucuk]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:51:38 +0200
Andrew Langdon-Davies <ald2@arrakis.es> wrote:

> Good morning,
> 
> Following is from /etc/inittab on a client running Slackware-9.0.
> 
> # These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode:
> c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
> c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
> c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
> c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> c5:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
> c7:12345:respawn:/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08
> 
> The last line is added by me. Sure enough, I get a display on vt08
> from the server, which is running Mandrake-9.2. So far, so good. The
> two things I cannot work out, however many times I re-read man
> inittab, are 

 I guess you are using init 4 as default

> 1. How do I stop the local X system from giving me a
> login screen? (it comes up on vt02)

 You are defaulting to init 4, which executes /etc/rc.d/rc.4

 change your default init to 3 in inittab file.

 id:3:initdefault:


> 2. Why have I not got any text consoles? (they are all just black with
> a blinking cursor).

 As you are in init 4, that is normal. Look at the above lines

 c1:1235:resp.....
     ^^^
  it does not have an "init 4" definition. Either add a 4 there, or
switch to init 3.


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 <onur@delipenguen.net>                            but wisdom listens  

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Re: inittab

[Beolach]

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Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> Following is from /etc/inittab on a client running Slackware-9.0.
>
> # These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode:
> c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
> c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
> c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
> c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> c5:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
> c7:12345:respawn:/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08
>
> The last line is added by me. Sure enough, I get a display on vt08 from
> the server, which is running Mandrake-9.2. So far, so good. The two
> things I cannot work out, however many times I re-read man inittab, are
> 1. How do I stop the local X system from giving me a login screen? (it
> comes up on vt02)

Assuming you actually do want to have X running, but only want to login
screen to be on the remote system & not the local, edit /etc/rc.4 so
that you don't start [kgx]dm on the local machine.

> 2. Why have I not got any text consoles? (they are all just black with a
> blinking cursor).
> Thank-you all very much in advance,
> Andrew
>

You actually do have text consoles, just not on vt's 1-5.  If you want
these text consoles, change your inittab to something like this:

# These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode:
# consoleN:runlevels:what_to_do_on_exit:program_to_run_and_options
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
c7:12345:respawn:/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08

HTH,
Conway S. Smith
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Re: inittab

[Beolach]

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On other thing I want to mention: the way you have it now, you're
running the `XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08` command on all
runlevels 1-5, you may only want to run it on runlevel 4 (Slackware's X
runlevel).

If you do only want it on runlevel 4, change the inittab line to:
c7:4:respawn:/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08

Good luck,
Conway S. Smith

Beolach wrote:
> Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote:
>
>>>Good morning,
>>>
>>>Following is from /etc/inittab on a client running Slackware-9.0.
>>>
>>># These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode:
>>>c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
>>>c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
>>>c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
>>>c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
>>>c5:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
>>>c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
>>>c7:12345:respawn:/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08
>>>
>>>The last line is added by me. Sure enough, I get a display on vt08 from
>>>the server, which is running Mandrake-9.2. So far, so good. The two
>>>things I cannot work out, however many times I re-read man inittab, are
>>>1. How do I stop the local X system from giving me a login screen? (it
>>>comes up on vt02)
>
>
> Assuming you actually do want to have X running, but only want to login
> screen to be on the remote system & not the local, edit /etc/rc.4 so
> that you don't start [kgx]dm on the local machine.
>
>
>>>2. Why have I not got any text consoles? (they are all just black with a
>>>blinking cursor).
>>>Thank-you all very much in advance,
>>>Andrew
>>>
>
>
> You actually do have text consoles, just not on vt's 1-5.  If you want
> these text consoles, change your inittab to something like this:
>
> # These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode:
> # consoleN:runlevels:what_to_do_on_exit:program_to_run_and_options
> c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
> c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
> c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
> c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
> c7:12345:respawn:/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08
>
> HTH,
> Conway S. Smith
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