Re: runit pblms on Mandrake

[Hleil Liu <hleil@yahoo.com.cn>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:10:31 -0700 (PDT)
Karthik M <k_mohanas@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am trying to install runit-0.10.0 on Mandrake 9.0. I
> was facing initial compilation pblms which Gerrit
> solved it and referred to this mailing list.
> 

First at all,you should make getty service running ok use
original /sbin/init and daemontools.see

http://smarden.org/runit/replaceinit.html

step3.

And,the best way is pass init=/sbin/runit-init to the kernel
instead of replace /sbin/init with /sbin/runit-init directly.If
system running as you expect,do replace,then reboot use
the new /sbin/init.

Make sure you copy runit-init itself into /sbin if you want 
use symbolic links.I my system,I just 

cp /admin/package/runit/command/runit-init /sbin/init

> The i modified the symlink to :
> 
> #ln -s /sbin/runit /sbin/init  [instead of runit-init]
> 

Error.Must replace /sbin/init with runit-init.

> I have freed tty5 from /etc/inittab file already. I am
> stuck up at this point basically. I guess i am wrong
> in the invocation of the *getty programs. Any
> suggestions would be really helpful.
> 

/etc/inittab only effected with original /sbin/init.In fact,
in oder to test whether getty running fine in step3,you
can select another free tty,ex,tty8(RedHat only use 
tty1-tty6,if you have X,you should not use tty7,so 
maybe tty8 is better)

Regard!