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Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?



On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Eddy Petri?or wrote:
> The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for
> getty and it needs to modify /etc/inittab.

Don't. /etc/inittab is critical infrastructure on every system where it is
used, NEVER EVER touch it.

Document what the user has to do to activate the package, instead, and let
him activate it where he wants, the way he wants.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
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