From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Langdon-Davies Subject: inittab Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:51:38 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <406AA2BA.7020209@arrakis.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs