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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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

Dan.
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