Getty, do I need it running?

[Bryce C]

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By looking at that, you definately do.  Getty is used for shell login on
linux boxes these days (and unix days too).

On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 21:52, Miles Beck wrote:
> I was looking around at what services were running when trying to kill a
> service and noticed the following.
>=20
> 237 tty1     S      0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> 238 tty2     S      0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
> 239 tty3     S      0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
> 240 tty4     S      0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
> 241 tty5     S      0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
> 242 tty6     S      0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
>=20
> I read in the man page this is used for dial up, I do not have dial up on
> this system. Is this all Getty is used for and if so, how can I prevent i=
t
> from running in the future?
>=20
> Thanks
>=20
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Bryce Chidester
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CoBryce Communications
Bryce AT BryceCo DOT Net
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