[ale] tty1 vs tty2,3,4,etc

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Jun 8 12:13:04 EDT 2010


init claims to be unbound to tty1 (tty field shows ? on ps aux) but it
clearly still is. F12 is using a similar upstart process as ubuntu. I'm not
seeing anything in rc.sysinit that would tie it to tty1. Time to dig through
the source on the kernel to see how it calls init.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:29:40 -0400
> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > yeah. That's what I'm thinking. So a command to kill all procs on
> > tty1 would be bad.
> >
> > I'll need to find a way to make init disassociate from tty1 OR set
> > tty1 to never allow a login prompt, just a message.
> >
>
> On my Ubuntu system I'm seeing init not having any controlling tty.
> What do you see on F12?
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