"job control turned off" faq incomplete?
Rory Vieira
rory.vieira at coolview.nl
Mon Dec 5 17:32:52 UTC 2005
Rob,
> > I noticed that as long as my rootfs is readonly I got the
> message. So
> > the top two lines in my inittab were
> > 1. Mount /proc
> > 2. Remount root readwrite...
> >
> Lemme guess: /dev is on your read-only root filesystem, thus
> tty0 is read
> only, so it can't do things like chown it to belong to
> whoever just logged
> in?
Exactly :)
> That can have funky side effects, and is another reason to
> use udev on tmpfs.
> (My dumb little script to populate /dev from /sys is
> attached. I have a
> version of this ported to C and a quick and dirty spec for a
> config file
> format for it that Solar and I worked out in IRC one evening,
> but it's 1.2 material.)
The script looks great. But doesn't this mean we need to mount /sys first?!?
Cheers,
Rory
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