Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 04:58:36 UTC 2008


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I always thought it was odd it was on vt7 instead of vt1 or vt12. Why pick
> one in the middle to be special. (Note that when I used to use vts I
> had 12 configured.)

It just happens to be the first free one.  I remember having virtual 
terminals running Dell's version of SysV linux on a 486 box in the early 
90's.  Somebody probably copied their inittab file with 6 getty's...

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   Les Mikesell
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