On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, John Starkey wrote about, Re: Minicom..... and an idea!!!!!!:
> > > And referring back to your "never reboot" comment. How do I exit a locked up
>Pico?
> >
> > In the same way i told you to kill minicom, change consoles like Greg told
> > you.
> > ps ax | grep pico
> > kill 12345 where 12345 is the field shown from ps ax
> >
>
> Ok.... that's one I'm not gonna forget. I like that command. As well as the vt
>thing. I think
> Bill Gates is gonna be really mad in about 5 years.
>
> But what are ll these things that are coming up when I use ps ax. Is this everything
>that's
> running and eating up CPU speed???? I have a list of 30 things that show up with
>that command.
> Should I kill any of the other processes? Like:
Its a complete list of all running processes and daemons, as to them eating
cpu time i doubt it, most of the time you will find that they are in an
"idle" state.
>
> 312 ? S 0:00 http
There are as many httpd's as that are defined in its config file.
it means you can have x amount of connections at any one time.
So you have 10 running, you may have 10 different connections at any one
time.
> There are 5 lines (312-6) with http. Why does it need 5 of these
> whatevers. I did a pico /dev/modem and it locked up. I'm in
> another terminal now (thanks to you), but if I keep going I will run
> out:}
> >
> > You cant edit a device file there nothing to be edited, if a console
> > becomes all mixed up, ie the prompt does not return to the lefthand side,
> > then type reset.
>
> Ok thanks. I haven't really run into that yet. But I'll try to remember it.
>
> > You will not run out of consoles.
> > If one becomes completly unusable, because you did sommat wrong, simply log
> > out and then back in again.
>
> So you can log into more than 6 vts. I guess that makes sense. I think I read that
>you can have
> a few hundred users on at once. Are these vts treated as separate users? If I sign
>on as root 4
> times. Does Linux see that as four separate users or as root x 4???? Seems like
>users x 4 is
> the only way.
The amount of ttys available is defined in ./etc/inittab
Normally there are 6 you can define more if required.
Each one when used, is indipendant from all others, meaning if you are roor
on terminal 1 (tty1) and you are logged in on tty2 as pipo, linux see you
for what you are on each termianl.
Each ternianl is indipendat, so i hope that answers your questions in one
go.
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