On Wed Mar 08 2000 at 18:34, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tony Nugent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> > perl -spi -e 's,mingetty tty1$,mingetty tty1 --noclear,' /etc/inittab
> >
> > This prevents the screen from clearing on the first tty when mingetty
> > takes over.
>
> You're treading on holy war territory on this. Unless something
> drastic happens, this will *not* be changed.
ohdear. No guess which arguement won :-(
> All the boot messages should be in /var/log/boot.log and /var/log/messages.
Yes. And no. Isn't the same.
I'll just keep that perl one-liner handy...
> > Kudzu, when called from the rc script(s), should run on, say, tty2
> > (or the next available console, whatever), then switch back after it
> > is finished. Easily achieved with a command line switch used by
> > (and mainly for) the rc script.
>
> Obviously, this would have to be fixed for serial boots, but
> we could look at this.
>
> > This is VERY handy! It is done with this:
> >
> > Kernel \r on a \m 2-processor (\l)
>
> The problem here is that the escapes aren't interpreted
> the same way by the different *getty's. :(
True. Easily solvable? Hmm, no :( [scrubbed of my original list]
Cheers
Tony
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