[ale] Error Message

[Alan Bowman]

>>I found the following lines in my inittab:
>>
>>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
>>
>>I commented them out, rebooted, and the error messages ceased (didn't have
>>to cross my fingers, either ;-) ).  
>>
>>Now, just what DID I comment out?

 Those were your virtual consoles, Alt-F1 through Alt-F6.  Usually a
reboot will clear any getty messages, or killing the PID's of the ttys. 
fuser -k /dev/ttyc* will usually do the trick.  Why this happens I have
no idea, but I see it every now and then on the SCO boxen I have to
support.  Just by chance, are you using xdm to log in?

...alan

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