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From: pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: f
Message-ID: <410@pcbox.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 04:26:50 GMT
References: <281@spies.UUCP> <11@thezone.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie)
Organization: Yet Another Box - Castro Valley, Ca.
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In article <11@thezone.UUCP> emm@thezone.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski) writes:
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>
>The way to enable/disable the getty on tty000, is to modify the /etc/inittab
>file. Be VERY careful when doing this, the inittab file is used during
>bootup and when users logout. If the inittab file is haphazardly changed
>the system might not work correctly. If you have the manual read the 
>entry about init( 1M ) and inittab( 4 ).
>

why not just do a "setgetty 000 1"
where:
000 = tty000
1 = turn getty on

"setgetty 000 0"
turns it back off