Re: Screen Command vs. Virtual Consoles

[Dave Mielke <dave mielke cc>]

[quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on March 23, 2002, at 13:50]

>On my debian system, only tty1 has 2345 for run levels; the rest have 23
>only.

There are usually comments near the top of inittab wherein the distribution
describes its use of the various run levels. Perhaps Debian reserves run levels
4 and 5 for something special.

>Also, we are using getty rather than mingetty.

getty is the standard utility, wehreas mingetty is a very stripped down getty
which is all that's necessary for a virtual console.

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