On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:58:36PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I always thought it was odd it was on vt7 instead of vt1 or vt12. Why pick >> one in the middle to be special. (Note that when I used to use vts I >> had 12 configured.) > It just happens to be the first free one. I remember having virtual > terminals running Dell's version of SysV linux on a 486 box in the early > 90's. Somebody probably copied their inittab file with 6 getty's... I went and looked at the oldest inittab I could find online in a half-hour of searching. <http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/redhat/3.0.3/i386/trees/liveram/etc/inittab> It has: # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:1234:respawn:/sbin/getty tty1 VC linux 2:234:respawn:/sbin/getty tty2 VC linux 3:234:respawn:/sbin/getty tty3 VC linux 4:234:respawn:/sbin/getty tty4 VC linux 5:234:respawn:/sbin/getty tty5 VC linux 6:234:respawn:/sbin/getty tty6 VC linux # Run xdm in runlevel 5 # x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon That's right -- NO gettys configured in the X runlevel. None! The new school *is* the old school! And check out inittab from Slackware 1.1.2, dated 1994-01-27. It has the following getty lines: c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 c3:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 c4:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 c5:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 c6:456:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 # Runlevel 6 used to be for an X-window only system, until we discovered # that it throws init into a loop that keeps your load avg at least 1 all # the time. Thus, there is now one getty opened on tty6. Hopefully no one # will notice. ;^) # It might not be bad to have one text console anyway, in case something # happens to X. x1:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.6 So again, no text vts with X, except for due to a bug. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect Cyberinfrastructure Labs Computing & Information Technology Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
