Re: inittab

Beolach
2004-04-01T04:24:07Z

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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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