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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!spectre!rjl
  3. From: rjl@spectre.apana.org.au (Richard Lindner)
  4. Subject: Re: How can I remove virtual consoles?
  5. Organization: Australian Coherent Users Group
  6. References: <9301222097@drktowr.chi.il.us>
  7. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.060830.28152@spectre.apana.org.au>
  8. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
  9. Date: 25 Jan 93 19:08:29 GMT
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  11.  
  12. Louis Giliberto (magus@drktowr.chi.il.us) wrote:
  13. : fred smith (fredex@fcshome.UUCP) wrote:
  14. : 
  15. : : What I fail to comprehend is why you would want FEWER login devices
  16. : : available.
  17. : 
  18. : Less memory usage.  Each tty needs a getty spawned off of init.  If
  19. : you don't use them, why have them? Most people like you and I want
  20. : more than four, but a casual user might just want 1 or 2.
  21. : 
  22. why not just disable the unrequired vterms - "disable mono3" or the
  23. like will switch off the getty.
  24.  
  25.  
  26. -- 
  27. richard lindner                   ,-_|\            rjl@spectre.apana.org.au
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