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Burning_aces

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Registered: 2009-09-29

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Question regarding quickinit script

Ok so its installed, current boot time is 12 seconds
i was wondering if i can remove some of the tty's, say 3 of them, so i only have 4 tty's as that will also increase boot time?

loafer

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Re: Question regarding quickinit script

You can remove them and I'm sure the speed increase would be very small.  I have never bothered with anything like this as I always ask myself what productive work I would have done in the time saved and can never think of anything.

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jac

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Re: Question regarding quickinit script

In addition to what loafer said, I believe that you want to look into /etc/inittab . At least, to keey agetty/fgetty starting on them, which I'm not sure is what you want to do or not. Do you not want to create the device nodes either?

Last edited by jac (2010-01-22 21:30:08)

Burning_aces

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Re: Question regarding quickinit script

jac you on irc?
what do you mean? change the agetty to fgetty?
and i dont need all the device nodes, hence i wanted to remove 4 tty's but wasnt sure if i removed some of the tty's if i needed to carry that on to the vcs's and vcas's?

Last edited by Burning_aces (2010-01-23 15:37:51)

jac

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Re: Question regarding quickinit script

I'm not on irc, I'm going to have to try that thing one of these days I wasn't sure if you just don't want to have the login manager runnig and taking up the little space it does (fgetty takes up even less), or if you wanted to stop the device nodes from being created. By editing /etc/inittab you can prevent a login manager from starting (such as agetty or fgetty), but I don't know enough yet about how to prevent the actual device nodes (i.e., /dev/tty{1..53}) from being created. You might have to edit kernel source or something for that. I'd try googling "prevent /dev/tty creation" or something similar to that.

Burning_aces

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Re: Question regarding quickinit script

ok thank you