Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 18:18:15 UTC 2008


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> You will likely comprehend the absurdity of this proposal when X server
>> races the next time.
> 
> As a user...wtf do I know about a race condition?
> 
> As a tester...im going to turn on a going to turn on gettys no matter
> what the defaults are.
> where the getty is..is arbitrary...for my needs to interact with it.
> 
> As an admin....serial consoles are great.

As an admin you likely have the option of ssh'ing in from a different 
machine in case the console hardware is broken.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com





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