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Re: enough of the getty's!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sunando Sen)
Fri Nov 1 12:20:38 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 12:13:37 -0500
From: Sunando Sen <sunando@nycc.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, tmills@dimensional.com
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> I understand from a couple of freinds who use (ugh) commercial UNIX's,
> that they do not use getties anymore. They us something called portmon
> or portmonitor, that is idle and takes up many fewer resources than =
the
> getties do. I'm still pretty new to this stuff, Does anybody know what
> I'm talking about? If they do, are there ports of this daemon out =
there
> for Linux?
>=20
I suggest you speak to your friends more. Portmon is something you =
definitely=20
do not want. I do not know what specific problems you are facing with =
getty,=20
but Redhat comes with it already set up, I certainly did not have to =
mess with=20
it in order to get a login prompt.
For your amusement, I am including the following excerpt from the file=20
/etc/init.d/inetsvc on a Sun (running Solaris):
#
# Run inetd in "standalone" mode (-s flag) so that it doesn't have
# to submit to the will of SAF. Why did we ever let them change inetd?
#
/usr/sbin/inetd -s
SAF (Service Access Facility) is a piece of monstrosity which portmon is =
a part=20
of.
Regards,
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