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Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

From Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?
Date 2019-06-06 17:00 +0200
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On 6/5/19 11:15 PM, David Wright wrote:

> On Wed 05 Jun 2019 at 22:43:53 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
>> Gene Heskett composed on 2019-06-05 22:04 (UTC-0400):
>>
>>> root@coyote:~$ locate agetty
>>> /sbin/agetty
>> Maybe this will be a useful clue:
>>
>> In Stretch, any gettys running on vtty[1-6] are actually agettys.
>> Files in /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/ are symlinks to:
>> 	/lib/systemd/system/getty@service
>> # ps -A | grep get
>>   1021 tty3     00:00:00 agetty
>>   1022 tty4     00:00:00 agetty
>>   1023 tty2     00:00:00 agetty
>>   1451 tty1     00:00:00 agetty
>>   3932 tty6     00:00:00 agetty
>> 12733 tty5     00:00:00 agetty
>>
>> Why all this would tie up the serial port I don't know.

Depends on how the serial port is configured.  It's pretty standard for 
it to be set up as a console, by default, in which case an instance of 
getty would be running waiting for a user to login.

Miles Fidelman

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What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-06 04:10 +0200
  Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-06-06 04:50 +0200
  Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-06 04:50 +0200
    Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-06 05:20 +0200
      Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-06-06 17:00 +0200
  Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-06 09:30 +0200
    Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-06 13:20 +0200
      Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-06 13:40 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-06 14:20 +0200
    Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-06 14:30 +0200
      Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-06 14:40 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-06 21:10 +0200
    Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2019-06-06 17:00 +0200
  Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-07 18:00 +0200
    Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-08 03:40 +0200
      Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-08 04:10 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-08 05:50 +0200
          Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-06-08 07:20 +0200
            Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-08 10:50 +0200
              Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-06-08 16:30 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-08 17:30 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-09 09:20 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-06-09 10:10 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-09 10:30 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-06-09 12:00 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-09 13:10 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-09 17:00 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-06-09 20:20 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-10 06:10 +0200
  Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-06-10 10:50 +0200
    Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-10 13:20 +0200
      Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-06-10 15:50 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-10 16:20 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-10 18:00 +0200

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