Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 21:19:43 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) said: 
>   
>> As an admin you likely have the option of ssh'ing in from a different  
>> machine in case the console hardware is broken.
>>     
>
> And as a distro developer, we can do things like disable all
> gettys by default, catch VT switch events with ConsoleKit, fire off events,
> and start mingetty on demand.
>
> (Well, not quite yet with upstart. But that really seems to be the
> logical answer.)
>
> Bill
>
>   
....y'know, we could...

I know we're kinda avoiding touching new upstart whizbang until the dust 
clears, but there's actually no reason that shouldn't work.

--CJD




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