From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 5:21:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from osiris.ipform.ru (osiris.ipform.ru [212.158.165.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C63437B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 05:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wp2 (wp2 [192.168.0.12]) by osiris.ipform.ru (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e94CKo810049; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:21:08 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from matrix@ipform.ru) Message-ID: <00a401c02dfd$93293120$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> From: "Artem Koutchine" To: "Martin Novak" , References: <01C02E0D.E2775DA0.mnovak@stap.cz> Subject: Re: question Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:20:49 +0400 Organization: IP Form MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man getty man ttys will help a lot /etc/ttys sets up the getties ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Novak" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 4:17 PM Subject: question > Could you please explain what "getty" means? For example in the following sentence: > In a nutshell, you need to tell the init process, which is responsible for > process control and initialization, to start a getty process, which is > responsible for reading a login name and starting the login program. > > Thanks a lot for your help. > Best regards > Martin > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message