From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Subject: Re: getty trouble
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:19:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040820071950.11549.qmail@7e729926274f71.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040819173046.GE30800@mail.devonit.com>
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 01:30:46PM -0400, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> Hello. Thanks for runit, I love it.
>
> 'getty' runs fine. 'mingetty' refuses to run though, because it gets
> EPERM on a tty open. Any ideas? mingetty used to run fine under SysV
> init. This is RH 6.2, with the old getty and mingetty. Thanks.
Most probably it's because runsv doesn't automatically make a service
run script a process group leader. Some getties call setsid(2) on their
own, some doesn't. For those which doesn't, you can use chpst(8) to
change the process state.
exec chpst -P mingetty ...
Regards, Gerrit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-19 17:30 Dan Melomedman
2004-08-20 7:19 ` Gerrit Pape [this message]
2004-08-20 16:45 ` Dan Melomedman
2004-08-23 0:04 ` runsv and process groups (was Re: getty trouble) Charlie Brady
2004-08-23 13:26 ` runsv and process groups Clemens Fischer
2004-08-23 21:29 ` Charlie Brady
2004-08-26 16:27 ` Clemens Fischer
2004-08-26 17:05 ` Charlie Brady
2004-08-26 20:48 ` Gerrit Pape
2004-08-26 20:57 ` Paul Jarc
2004-08-29 9:39 ` Gerrit Pape
2004-08-27 1:06 ` Charlie Brady
2004-09-11 9:58 ` Gerrit Pape
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