[NTLUG:Discuss] Set number of mingetty processes

Rusty Haddock rusty at fe2o3.lonestar.org
Sun Mar 2 22:32:56 CST 2003


Rick Matthews wrote:
    >On Redhat, where do I set the number of mingetty processes that will
    >will run?  I've moved it down from 5 or 6 to 3 on another system, 
    >but I have no idea where it was.

Mingetty is for virtual terminals on the console.  My system is
pretty old but it sets the number of mingetty proc's in
/etc/inittab.  Comment out the ones you don't want running;
probably near the bottom of the file.

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