From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 11:40:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02774 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 11:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop01.netaddress.usa.net (pop01.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA02769 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 11:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16555 invoked by uid 0); 13 Jul 1997 18:40:06 -0000 Received: from 198.79.45.78 by www03 via web-mailer (2.1) on Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:39:44 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:39:44 From: "John Drake" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: getty Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hello. recently i tried to set my system upp so that i could dial into it. getty came as part of the system but i could not get it to work right. so i got mgetty instead (which was very easy to set up,,even for me!). but i was wondering,,getty is loaded everytime that i boot,,even though i dont use it.anyone know what file initializes getty??? i tried /etc/rc but it wasnt that one. id really appreciate any help,,im afraid that having both of them initialize at boot may screw up everything! the only problem that i had with mgetty is that it wont let me dial out. anyone know if you are supposed to be able to dial out when mgetty is installed??(or did i just mess up some where??) --john.