Re: RfC: Hurd console by default
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:54:11AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> Something like this would probably be sufficient for the time being I
> guess, it doesn't restart the console if the last restart was less then
> three seconds ago:
>
> TIMESTAMP=0
> while (( `date +%s` - $TIMESTAMP > 3 )); do
> TIMESTAMP=`date +%s`
> console -d vga -d pc_kbd /dev/vcs
> done
>
> Actually, this works pretty well when started from the Mach console
> after login, but it only starts the Hurd console once when put into
> /libexec/runsystem and then drops into the Mach console no matter what.
>
> Anybody know why? And does it look somewhat reasonable in general?
Can somebody shed a light on this? Is it just me, or does the above
code in /libexec/runsystem not work for everybody?
Michael
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