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author | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2017-03-09 15:23:02 -0600 |
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committer | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2017-03-09 15:23:02 -0600 |
commit | d7bbb0f5830e1ec4df1ec52714d70ac6b0a81878 (patch) | |
tree | fd573e4347b4574e118649c4632097d6d3018a71 /agetty-guide.md | |
parent | 21ca2b746cce67e2b3578fb7015c9d4c243e3a0c (diff) |
add agetty service
The agetty service is an alternate way to manage gettys with agetty
under Linux which is separate from an external init system.
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diff --git a/agetty-guide.md b/agetty-guide.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ce46a830 --- /dev/null +++ b/agetty-guide.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Setting up the agetty service in OpenRC + +The agetty service is an OpenRC specific way to monitor and respawn a +getty, using agetty, on Linux. To use this method, make sure you aren't +spawning a getty manager for this port some other way (such as through +sysvinit/inittab), then run the following commands as root. + +Note that [port] refers to the port you are spawning the getty on, and +not the full path to it. For example, tty0 or ttyS0instead of /dev/tty0 +or /dev/ttyS0. +tty0 or ttyS0, not the full path to it (for example, tty0 or ttyS0 and + +``` +# cd /etc/init.d +# ln -s agetty agetty.[port] +# cd /etc/conf.d +# cp agetty agetty.[port] +#rc-update add agetty.[port] [runlevel] +``` |