arubin@spies.UUCP (Andy Rubin) (04/19/88)
Can someone please tell me how to enable/disbale getty on tty000 on
the PC 7300? Thanks!
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(914) 666-3997 300/1200 8N1 | <arubin@spies.UUCP>emm@thezone.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski) (04/20/88)
The way to enable/disable the getty on tty000, is to modify the /etc/inittab file. Be VERY careful when doing this, the inittab file is used during bootup and when users logout. If the inittab file is haphazardly changed the system might not work correctly. If you have the manual read the entry about init( 1M ) and inittab( 4 ). Edward M. Markowski UUCP: rutgers!rochester!kodak!gizzmo!lazlo!thezone!emm BITNET: EMM1694@RITVAX
pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie) (04/21/88)
In article <11@thezone.UUCP> emm@thezone.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski) writes: > > >The way to enable/disable the getty on tty000, is to modify the /etc/inittab >file. Be VERY careful when doing this, the inittab file is used during >bootup and when users logout. If the inittab file is haphazardly changed >the system might not work correctly. If you have the manual read the >entry about init( 1M ) and inittab( 4 ). > why not just do a "setgetty 000 1" where: 000 = tty000 1 = turn getty on "setgetty 000 0" turns it back off
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (04/22/88)
1. Edit /etc/inittab. There should be a line for the tty000 getty someplace near the end. Make sure the line starts with a :. Init ingores any lines in inittab that have zero length first fields. Of course, colon is the field separator. To reenable the getty, simply, change the colon to a space. (This is what the user agent brain-dead stuff does.) 2. Then do a "ps -fe" and note the PID of the getty and kill it. If/when you reenable the getty by putting the space in, you'll need to do a "telinit Q", whcih sends a signal to init (PID 1), and cause init to reread /etc/inittab for whatever run level you happen to be in. For a good reference on this mumbo-jumbo take a peek at "tutorial" in the May '88 issue of Unix World. It is a pretty good article. As far as I know, there is no un-messy way to do it. Getoff.sh seems to only be effective for knocking out the getty on the internal modem. Oh well. OF COURSE, AT&T COULD LET US GET HONEY DANBER, RIGHT? --Bill