Re: [Sheflug] inittab trimming

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 07 Nov 2001 4:51 pm, you wrote:

> 	As a first approach, I though that all those getty lines
> launched by inittab aren't needed: I only need one console, not 6. Each
> of them takes about 500 k (roughly equivalent to a half apache memory
> load), so I thought I'd take them out (I know they're in the swap, but
> if they aren't used, they shouldn't be there after all, should they?). I
> can just do that by going into /etc/inittab and commenting out the lines
> tha spawn them, but I am worried of touching this file in case something
> explodes or burns.

The lines like this:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

Can be cut back as much as you like. You might be well advised to leave one 
line there just in case of emergency.

Also try spawning proftpd/apache as separate processes and cut out the 
middleman (inetd).
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