changing the inittab file to use rungetty instead of getty
read the man page...
when a caspergetty (or is it casper-getty) argument is passed by the bootloader
Alex
On 09/02/07, james osburn <jjosburn@hotmail.com> wrote:
> is /sbin/casper-getty always called? or when is it called?
> black_13
> >
> >Or as a "--hook" to make-live you could dpkg-divert /sbin/casper-getty
> >and place your own /sbin/casper-getty which does (pseduo shell code)
> >
> >case $PORT in
> >tty[0-9])
> > exec startx ;;
> >*)
> > exec /sbin/casper-getty.real "$@" ;;
> >esac
> >
> >
> >
> >On 09/02/07, Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>In some ways the neatest thing to do is edit /etc/inittab in the chroot.
> >>The sed scripts in the CASPERGETTY part of 25configure_init try to
> >>be so tight that they only rewrite the original debian /etc/inittab. I
> >>can't vouch for the intent of the code outside the CASPERGETTY
> >>block... however I think it is a bug if that code rewrites modified
> >>versions of the original debian /etc/inittab. There may be come ubuntu
> >>copat code in there too but I don't know about that.
> >>
> >>In summary:
> >>(1) I'd try to modify the /etc/inittab in the chroot first and report
> >>bug 25configure_init overwrites it.
> >>(2) yes you have identified the right part of the code which rewrites
> >>/etc/inittab patching this file will also do what you want.
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>Alex Owen
> >>
>
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