El Domingo 12 Junio 2005 01:24, Russell Coker escribió: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 19:31, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > What about switching from getty to mingetty? Is there any reason to use > > getty by default? > > Is there any reason to change?
Well, I'm not very well informed about the subject, but some time ago I run in problems with getty freezing. Then I discovered mingetty, which claims to be "small, efficient". I also discovered that getty has some code to allow dial in our computer, which most of the people don't use nowadays and it makes getty more complex than required. Then I switched to mingetty and I never had problems with it. I sold my old hardware before the bug in getty got fixed. Now it seems that the problem is fixed (according to DBTS), but anyway I think that it is not a bad idea to switch to the simpler, smaller program that just-do-the-work. I think that the users that need a different *getty program have very specific needs and they know how to swich form mingetty to *getty (and anyway maybe they don't use getty but mgetty). On the other hand, I see that the memory usage diferences between getty and mingetty are really small, so maybe the change is not worthy... Regards, César
