Linux System Administration - X

init and runlevels

disabling a mingetty

You can disable a mingetty for a certain tty by removing the runlevel from the second field in its line in /etc/inittab. Don't forget to tell init about the change of its configuration file with kill -1 1.

The example below shows how to disable mingetty on tty3 to tty6 in runlevels 4 and 5.

[root@RHEL52 ~]# grep getty /etc/inittab

# Run gettys in standard runlevels

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1

2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2

3:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3

4:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4

5:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5

6:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

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