[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#613618: Bug#613618: sysvinit: init emits warning when we don't have getty in /etc/inittab

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

reassign 613618 ngetty
thanks

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> I am using ngetty (1.1-2) which doesn't use /etc/inittab
> but invoked by /etc/init.d/ngetty.

I suggest you invoke the master ngetty from init, instead.

> Since ngetty works differently than traditional getty, we don't need
> entries in /etc/inittab; single ngetty process watches all ttys
> and login processes simultaneously, and it runs forever.

And nothing ressurects if should it die or get killed by mistake/OOM
killer/memory corruption.  That is not resilient.

> Perhaps, init assumes that it needs to watch some processes (such as
> getty) to be respawned.  But using ngetty, I don't have any such
> processes.

I think it is on the sysv init design, yes.

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