[PATCH] Fix for getty console stair stepping

Antti Seppälä ajhseppa at niksula.hut.fi
Sun Aug 27 18:48:25 UTC 2006


Rob Landley wrote:
> after looking at the guts of getty.c I want to hit with a large rock 
> anyway. Try svn 15984.

Thank you for changing the getty initialization defaults, now my console
looks much better! :)

> Well, in theory your init scripts should block until the various 
> things it's initting have all respawned, but since this is something 
> that doesn't return and spits out asynchronous messages...
> 
> I take it that you can't run your init scripts on some _other_ 
> console?  Or null?
> 
> Heck, why can't you launch this program from a script that does "program 
>> /dev/null &"
> 
> Rob

I think I'll redirect vdr console output to /dev/null once I get it
running stable enough. For the moment the startup messages are necessary
for troubleshooting purposes.

-- 
Antti Seppälä




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