From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/723 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: Can't run mingetty with runsvdir? Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: lars@oddbit.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109007019 12673 80.91.229.2 (21 Feb 2005 17:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-962-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Mon Feb 21 18:30:19 2005 Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14] ident=qmailr) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3HNj-0000R9-PQ for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 9912 invoked by uid 76); 21 Feb 2005 17:33:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 9906 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2005 17:33:52 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209-6-203-41.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Sender: news X-MailScanner-To: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:723 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:723 > chpst -P /usr/bin/openvt -c 1 -w /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 I had to add '-f' to force it, but this finally worked: chpst -P /usr/bin/openvt -c 1 -w -f -- /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 Still not sure why...the call trace for mingetty by itself and mingetty run via openvt is remarkably similar. I'm using agetty now, which requires fewer hoops to jump through, so I'll probably stick with it for the time being. -- Lars -- Lars Kellogg-Stedman