inittab vs. /etc/sysconfig/init for runlevel 3/5
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Thu Mar 27 17:41:31 UTC 2008
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:33:08PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:24:38PM -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:45 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:57:08PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:53:31PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > > > > Hi.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:56:40 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I'm open to better ideas, though - should we ship a trimmed inittab
> > > > > > that contains *only* the initdefault line? Should we introduce a new
> > > > > > configuration flag somewhere else? Does it really matter in the long
> > > > > > run?
> > > > >
> > > > > At the very least leave an inittab file that contains a note that it
> > > > > is not used anymore. Much better than having to find out the new
> > > > > structure on your own.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it should have a comment pointing to /etc/sysconfig/init. And on a
> > > > related note where can you configure the starting of mingetty/agettty
> > > > processes for serial consoles / text consoles,
> >
> > /etc/event.d/tty[1-6] and /etc/event.d/serial
> >
> > > and where do you override the default C-A-D handling ?
> >
> > /etc/event.d/control-alt-delete
> >
> > There should probably be comments in the new /etc/inittab that point
> > people to these files (and a mention of a reference for event file
> > syntax). Something like:
>
> This information should be in the man pages for init. The current upstart
> man page doesn't cover any of this stuff
I've added this bug to request man page docs for configuration
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439245
IMHO, this should be a release blocker since it is a major change in the
distro that will trip up users familiar with old style init configuration.
Dan.
--
|: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :|
|: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :|
|: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|
|: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
More information about the fedora-devel-list
mailing list