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Re: sulogin timeout, in /etc/init.d/checkroot



In article <[🔎] Pine.BSI.3.95.971223144233.3703A-100000@ns1.midco.net>,
Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net> wrote:
>Now that we're using rcS.d rather than /etc/init.d/boot, I've noticed
>some different behavior from 'sulogin'.  I have "SULOGIN=yes", so I have
>a chance to go single-user on reboot.  However, the timeout does not
>work!  If I reboot the machine, I must physically hit "^D" to continue
>the boot, no matter what the timeout is set to in /etc/init.d/rootcheck.

It's a bug in init caused by different signal behaviour in libc6, it
doesn't have anything to do with /etc/rcS.d

I'll fix it in 2.73, but I cannot release that yet because I have to
clear up some conflicts with the maintainer of ``kbd'' (conflicts between
our respective packages, that is :))

Mike.
-- 
 Miquel van Smoorenburg |  Studying to be a technomage   <*>
    miquels@cistron.nl  | "May you live in interesting times"


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