'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 09/03/12 01:40 did gyre and gimble: > On 03/08/2012 03:17 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since switching to systemd, the mingetty we used to default to in >> inittab has been replaced by agetty (the default choice upstream). >> >> The question is should we switch it back to mingetty? >> > > Lookin other things I also looked at agetty manual, and found a couple > useful things: > > o Optionally displays an alternative issue file instead of /etc/issue. > > o Optionally does not ask for a login name. > > o Optionally invokes a non-standard login program instead of > /bin/login.
To play devils advocate (I would personally prefer to just use agetty!), mingetty does support at least the second two as well. > This looks ideal for the case where prefdm fails and you want to show > a big barner about it on tty1, or even drop the user direcly into > drakx text mode without any login. Perhaps it can be done in prefdm > if launching DISPLAYMANAGER fails. See the latest initscripts+systemd package. This is exactly what I've done! Great minds think alike I'd say! (tho' I'm using mingetty for now - partly because I wanted to play with it - I do intend to use agetty instead however) > So, if space or memory is not an issue, I will go for agetty in both > systemd and inittab. I'm not sure how much of a space saving it is, as the mingetty package is only 34k. But every little helps :) And while it does use more memory, I'm not sure anyone would particularly lose all that much sleep over it (I think my previous argument was a little weak!) :D Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
