From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Beolach Subject: Re: inittab Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:12:16 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <406B96A0.9080107@comcast.net> References: <406AA2BA.7020209@arrakis.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <406AA2BA.7020209@arrakis.es> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Andrew Langdon-Davies Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAa5agGL3AU+cCPDERAmbmAJ9LdNOzj9js3QBGHOFCgZ5h89o+SwCgw+LH BIDBuJdsDeNOsrxkm/qdgeo= =wxy9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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