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

[Paul Jarc]

Dumas Patrice <dumas@centre-cired.fr> wrote:
> I've read the init code related to utmp initialization, it is:
>               /*
>          *      Initialize /var/run/utmp (only works if /var is on
>          *      root and mounted rw)
>          */
>         (void) close(open(UTMP_FILE, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0644));

You can duplicate this in the proper place in your boot scripts easily
enough:
(umask 022; : > /var/run/utmp)


paul