I would highly suggest against modifying /etc/inittab.It looks interesting, and I am putting it on my list of things to try, but I would be very upset if installing the package did anything to my inittab. I am currently using a mix of agetty, mingetty, and fbgetty on my vt's (mostly for testing purposes), and mgetty for my modems. My current preference is mingetty for vt's, but fbgetty can be fun to play with.
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote:
"Eddy Petrisor" <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> wrote in message 60381eeb05090908202e87f487@mail.gmail.com">news:60381eeb05090908202e87f487@mail.gmail.com...No qingy is a replacement for mingetty, or for the vt portion of agetty. Qingy does not replace true getty. getty on a debian system is actually agetty, which supports both dumb modem connections and VTs.Hello, The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for getty and it needs to modify /etc/inittab.Real getty supports ony serial lines (dumb modems). Quingy and mingetty only work for VTs.Nevertheless, you can use quingy as a drop-in replacement for debian's getty if you are not using serial terminals.Just wanted to chime in.