Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 21:15:03 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) said: 
> As an admin you likely have the option of ssh'ing in from a different  
> machine in case the console hardware is broken.

And as a distro developer, we can do things like disable all
gettys by default, catch VT switch events with ConsoleKit, fire off events,
and start mingetty on demand.

(Well, not quite yet with upstart. But that really seems to be the
logical answer.)

Bill




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