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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.