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[Bill Mayhew]

1.  Edit /etc/inittab.  There should be a line for the tty000 getty
someplace near the end.  Make sure the line starts with a :.  Init
ingores any lines in inittab that have zero length first fields.
Of course, colon is the field separator.  To reenable the getty,
simply, change the colon to a space.  (This is what the user agent
brain-dead stuff does.)

2.  Then do a "ps -fe" and note the PID of the getty and kill it.
If/when you reenable the getty by putting the space in, you'll need
to do a "telinit Q", whcih sends a signal to init (PID 1), and
cause init to reread /etc/inittab for whatever run level you happen
to be in.

For a good reference on this mumbo-jumbo take a peek at "tutorial"
in the May '88 issue of Unix World.  It is a pretty good article.

As far as I know, there is no un-messy way to do it.  Getoff.sh
seems to only be effective for knocking out the getty on the internal
modem.  Oh well.

OF COURSE, AT&T COULD LET US GET HONEY DANBER, RIGHT?

--Bill