inittab vs. /etc/sysconfig/init for runlevel 3/5

[Michael E Brown]

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, and where do you override
> the default C-A-D handling ?

+1

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Michael