Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] xgetty: Do not edit /etc/inittab when switching from Xen to Linux and back

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/11/13 11:51, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 12:44 +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > xgetty establishes serial console name from system boot command
> > line (/proc/cmdline) and then runs getty. This is very useful if
> > someone switches very often between Linux and Xen and uses serial
> > console. xgetty does boring things and runs getty on relevant line.
> > This way nobody needs to worry about /etc/inittab changes anymore.
> This seems like it could be very useful, but it doesn't seem at all Xen
> specific. I think it would be worth trying to get this into an upstream
> -- e.g. agetty (since that is what you appear to shell out to).
I've been using an inittab entry like this:

T0:23:respawn:bash -c "/sbin/getty --noclear -L 
$(/etc/find-remote-tty.sh) 115200 vt102"
But having agetty able to search the Linux command-line for the argument 
is much better.
 -George


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