Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!kd4nc!n4hgf!wht From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: problems with ungetty Message-ID: <192@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> Date: 21 Aug 90 15:54:52 GMT References: <5476@thebes.Thalatta.COM> <360@tygra.ddmi.com> Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.UUCP (Warren Tucker) Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF Lines: 16 In article <360@tygra.ddmi.com> cat@tygra.UUCP (CAT-TALK Maint. Account) writes: >In article <5476@thebes.Thalatta.COM> campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell) writes: >} >}getty shouldn't even be running unless CD is up on the >}modem line. > >WRONG! getty's are spawned by init when (1) the system is started Actually, you are both "right" :-). Bill is describing the BSD approach while 'cat' is talking about System V. XENIX, of course, uses the System V approach (mostly; Microsoft hung the BSD /etc/ttys bag off the side of init). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Warren Tucker, TuckerWare gatech!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US "Tell the moon; don't tell the March Hare: He is here. Do look around."