Hi David, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > On 04/10/11 10:23, Dan Dart wrote: > > I believe some programs will stop working with a "no more ttys" > > error - can you just not start the gettys but leave the ttys? Not > > sure I have the correct terminology there - even don't start the > > login processes? > > Can you still make one of them a console? That might help. It would > also you you know what was going on.
Well, you could leave the getty(8)s running but use their -n option to stop printing a login prompt and their -l option to alter the login program they run (as root) to something that does nothing, e.g. displays a message and sleeps endlessly. If it's OK for root to log in on a tty but no one else then nologin(5) may be what you need. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-10-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
