I've got a FreeBSD (9.2) box that I'm trying to strip down as lightweight as possible. It's running on a VM server, so other than ttyv0, we don't ever use the console. I'd like (if possible and reasonable) to not start the extra getty processes that run ttyv1 through ttyv7. How do I accomplish that in a FreeBSD supported manner?
Freebsd – How to limit the number of getty processes started
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Best Answer
You can edit the
/etc/inittab
file and comment out the unneeded ttys.Take a look at the inittab manpage here.
If
inittab
doesn't exist, take a look at the/etc/ttys
file. It also has a manpage here.