From: Beolach <beolach@comcast.net>
To: Andrew Langdon-Davies <ald2@arrakis.es>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inittab
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:12:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406B96A0.9080107@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <406AA2BA.7020209@arrakis.es>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-01 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-31 10:51 inittab Andrew Langdon-Davies
2004-03-31 12:27 ` inittab Onur Kucuk
2004-04-01 4:12 ` Beolach [this message]
2004-04-01 4:24 ` inittab Beolach
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