Re: launched by rungetty bash breaks terminal input interpretation upon runlevel change

[Paul Jarc]

Dumas Patrice <dumas@centre-cired.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:23:48AM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> Dumas Patrice <dumas@centre-cired.fr> wrote:
>> > #to show the problem
>> > 1:3:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1  -u root -g root --noclear -- /bin/bash 
>> > --login
>> > 4:4:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1  -u root -g root --noclear -- 
>> > /bin/start_test
>>
>> I think init doesn't like this.  The first field should correspond to
>> the tty, so using id "4" with tty1 won't work.  It follows that you
>
> I sent a mail to the author of init (in linux) and he said that this wasn't
> true, that the id was nothing more than a 4 char identifier.

What init are you using?  I know that isn't true for RedHat's
SysVinit.  The identifier is also used for utmp accounting.  From the
inittab man page:
              Note:  For  gettys or other login processes, the id
              field should be the tty suffix of the corresponding
              tty,   e.g.  1  for  tty1.   Otherwise,  the  login
              accounting might not work correctly.

Have you tried doing what I said?


paul