Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-28 Thread Tim Heckman
Bob Proulx wrote: Do you have the bug number handy? I would be interested in reading through it. Certainly: - Debian Bug #609851 - incorrect variables used to set hostname in dhclient-script - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609851 I haven't noticed any behavior

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-27 Thread Tim Heckman
John Hasler writes: Ok. Is the idea to image all the machines identically and then configure them automatically via dhcp? If so why do they need locally configured hostnames at all? By default all of our distribution templates set the hostname of the system, via DHCP, to match the default

Re: Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-27 Thread Tim Heckman
Bob Proulx wrote: Tim Heckman wrote: Luckily the two of these issues won't come in to play here. This is going to be used on a system that does not have X installed and will have a static IP address. We use DHCP to assign the address as it is easier to deploy a new distribution for our

Re: Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Heckman wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Tim Heckman wrote: The last time dhclient was attempted with this would have been on Debian 5.0. In our most recent Debian 6.0 template someone decided to use dhcpcd, What were they using before? In Debian 5.0 dhcp3-client was the package

Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Tim writes: The $new_host_name variable is the hostname that was provided by the dhcp server. Ok. Is the idea to image all the machines identically and then configure them automatically via dhcp? If so why do they need locally configured hostnames at all? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread John Hasler
set DELAYLOGIN=yes in /etc/default/rcS. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87obvzx1yu@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
John, Thank you for replying back as well as the idea to set this option. I wish it had been this easy but it appears that this option does not affect how getty prints the login prompt. I believe this may only affect someone trying to log in and not how it prints. If you have any further

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
John, Thank you for replying back as well as the idea to set this option. I wish it had been this easy but it appears that this option does not affect how getty prints the login prompt. I believe this may only affect someone trying to log in and not how it prints. If you have any further

Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Heckman wrote: I have an interesting problem that should actually be seen as a compliment to Debian. My system is booting so fast that the /sbin/getty is spawning before DHCP sets the hostname. So I get a prompt like this: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (none) hvc0 (none) login:

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
Bob Proulx wrote: Am I correct in assuming that you have modified /sbin/dhclient-script to set the hostname from the dhcp'd hostname? (That is what I did when I was doing this.) I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. This checks whether the hostname should be

Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread John Hasler
Tim Heckman writes: I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. This checks whether the hostname should be set and completes the process. Only sets it if it really is needed. Try killing getty in your script (init will respawn it). You may also need to delay logins so

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
John Hasler writes: Tim Heckman writes: I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. This checks whether the hostname should be set and completes the process. Only sets it if it really is needed. Try killing getty in your script (init will respawn it). You may also need

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Heckman wrote: I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. This checks whether the hostname should be set and completes the process. Only sets it if it really is needed. Ah, very good. In this case it is six of one and a half dozen of the other. Either way should

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Heckman wrote: John Hasler writes: Try killing getty in your script (init will respawn it). You may also need to delay logins so that the user can't log in too early. I'm not sure why but I hadn't thought of this. I was hoping to implement a delay instead of having to kill getty. I

Re: getty-Manpage

2005-02-22 Thread Werner Mahr
Am Montag, 21. Februar 2005 16:49 schrieb Heike C. Zimmerer: Geht nicht. Eine Anwendung wäre beispielsweise ein Bedienerpanel, das nur ein paar wenige Tasten besitzt und eine einfache alphanumerische Anzeige, die nur Großbuchstaben darstellen kann. Da Linux zunehmend im embedded Bereich

Re: getty-Manpage

2005-02-22 Thread Rainer Bendig aka Ny
Moin Moin Werner Mahr, *, Werner Mahr wrote on Feb 22, 2005 at 12:42PM +0100: Das Problem würde sich auch umgehen lassen. Was passiert, wenn ich eine Textdatei öffne, ein Komma hinzufüge, und das ganze dann wieder speicher? Bleiben die übrigen Zeichen so erhalten, oder werden die auch

Re: getty-Manpage

2005-02-22 Thread Heike C. Zimmerer
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heike C. Zimmerer) schrieb: Allerdings halte ich es für wenig sinnvoll, in der Man-Page eines so komplexen Programms dieses spezielle Thema mehr als nur anzureißen. , | o Adapts the tty settings to parity bits and to erase,

Re: getty-Manpage (was: login an console)

2005-02-21 Thread Werner Mahr
Am Montag, 21. Februar 2005 13:49 schrieb Frank Küster: aber nicht so. Wie ich so darüber schreibe, kommt mir die Vermutung, dass Terminals, die nur Großbuchstaben schicken, vielleicht auch nur Großbuchstaben darstellen können. Aber dann sollte man das auch so Wie ich so darüber nachdenke,

Re: getty-Manpage

2005-02-21 Thread Heike C. Zimmerer
Werner Mahr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Montag, 21. Februar 2005 13:49 schrieb Frank Küster: aber nicht so. Wie ich so darüber schreibe, kommt mir die Vermutung, dass Terminals, die nur Großbuchstaben schicken, vielleicht auch nur Großbuchstaben darstellen können. Aber dann sollte man das

Re: getty och /dev/tty3

2004-04-27 Thread Thomas Nyman
Martin Wickman wrote: Thomas Nyman wrote: Jag har plötslig börjat få följande meddelande i /var/log/auth.log Apr 25 06:52:18 jabba getty[9483]: /dev/tty3: already in use Apr 25 06:52:28 jabba getty[9484]: /dev/tty3: already in use Apr 25 06:52:38 jabba getty[9485]: /dev/tty3: already in use

Re: getty och /dev/tty3

2004-04-27 Thread Thomas Nyman
Hej ibland ser jag att följande dyker upp när jag kör ps axgl 4 0 24966 1 10 0 1496 528 nanosl Ss ? 0:00 /sbin/getty 3 sen försvinner det..nanosl är något nytt för mig. Martin Wickman wrote: Thomas Nyman wrote: Jag har plötslig börjat få följande meddelande i

Re: getty och /dev/tty3

2004-04-27 Thread Martin Wickman
Thomas Nyman wrote: Jag har plötslig börjat få följande meddelande i /var/log/auth.log Apr 25 06:52:18 jabba getty[9483]: /dev/tty3: already in use Apr 25 06:52:28 jabba getty[9484]: /dev/tty3: already in use Apr 25 06:52:38 jabba getty[9485]: /dev/tty3: already in use Apr 25 06:52:48 jabba

Re: Getty Frage

2004-03-16 Thread Bjoern Schmidt
Jan Kohnert schrieb: Schau mal in /etc/inittab -:) Das sind die Terminals die du mit (ALT)-STRG-FX aufrufen kannst, wobei X 1, 2, 3,4 5 oder 6 sein kann. ALT mußt du dabei nur von der Graphik aus drücken. Du meinst STRG -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Bjoern Schmidt -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen

Re: Getty Frage

2004-03-15 Thread Jan Kohnert
Am Dienstag, 16. März 2004 01:57 schrieb Jim Knuth: Hallo und guten Morgen Debian-Nutzer, mal ne ganz blöde Frage. *duck* Wozu sind eigentlich bei einem Debian-Webserver diese Teile da? --snip 666 tty1 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 667 tty2 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2

Re: getty and inittab

2002-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Narins, Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think init q re-reads inittab. Correct. But, a long time ago, on a job, I did init -q on a SysV box, or was it BSD? Regardless, it was the wrong one, and I rebooted all our production machines in the middle of a run. So,

RE: getty and inittab

2002-12-27 Thread Narins, Josh
IGNORE THIS MESSAGE! I think init q re-reads inittab. But, a long time ago, on a job, I did init -q on a SysV box, or was it BSD? Regardless, it was the wrong one, and I rebooted all our production machines in the middle of a run. So, that's why I say you should ignore me telling you to issue

Re: getty and inittab

2002-12-27 Thread Richard Kreuter
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 03:16:05PM +0100, Niclas S?derlund wrote: if I need to remove all of the tty's except number one, I suppose I just comment out the 2-6 tty's in inittab. But how do I kill off the five already running getty's ? If I try a kill -9 I only get a new fresh restarted

Re: getty and inittab

2002-12-27 Thread Niclas Söderlund
At 15:32 2002-12-27, you wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 03:16:05PM +0100, Niclas S?derlund wrote: [snip] As for the gettys, they were started with respawn in inittab, right? If so, init will respawn them when they die. 'kill -HUP 1' will cause init to reread its configuration file, killing the

Re: Getty-Prozesse verschwinden

2002-09-20 Thread Markus Schaub
Am 19 Sep 2002 schrieb Dennis Stosberg: Ich habe auf einem Rechner das Problem, dass bei einem Reboot nur auf tty1 ein getty gestartet wird, obwohl die entsprechenden Eintraege in /etc/inittab vorhanden sind. In welchem Runlevel fährt das System denn hoch? Sind die Gettys für den

Re: Getty-Prozesse verschwinden

2002-09-19 Thread Heiko Heil
* Markus Schaub [EMAIL PROTECTED] [19.09.2002 20:35]: Ich habe auf einem Rechner das Problem, dass bei einem Reboot nur auf tty1 ein getty gestartet wird, obwohl die entsprechenden Eintraege in /etc/inittab vorhanden sind. Nach einem manuellem Aufruf init 2 ist es so wie es sich gehoert.

Re: Getty-Prozesse verschwinden

2002-09-19 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 19.09.2002 um 20:22 schrieb Markus Schaub: Ich habe auf einem Rechner das Problem, dass bei einem Reboot nur auf tty1 ein getty gestartet wird, obwohl die entsprechenden Eintraege in /etc/inittab vorhanden sind. Nach einem manuellem Aufruf init 2 ist es so wie es sich gehoert. Kennt

Re: getty

2002-08-19 Thread Lukasz Wojcik
GDM i KDM daja mozliwosc automatycznego logowania, ale poniewaz nie napisales czy chcesz sie logowac do srodowisk graficznych to nie wiem czy ta odpowiedz cie zadowoli :) Pozdrawiam Lukasz Wojcik UIN:66851843, GG:3807002 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Re: getty

2002-08-19 Thread Robert Olejnik
Było to tak, Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:33:45AM +0200 Lukasz Wojcik napisał do mnie coś takiego: GDM i KDM daja mozliwosc automatycznego logowania, ale poniewaz nie napisales czy chcesz sie logowac do srodowisk graficznych to nie wiem czy ta odpowiedz cie zadowoli :) moze zle sie wyrazilem,

Re: getty

2002-08-19 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:47:37AM +0200, Robert Olejnik wrote: moze zle sie wyrazilem, poprawka: podczas uzywania linux'a na laptopie, nuzy mnie logowanie sie, zwlaszcza ze nie uzywam hasla na uzytkownika, wiec fajnie by bylo automatycznie zalogowac sie na wszystkich konsolach bez

Re: Getty stirbt :(

2002-08-13 Thread Alexander Stellwag
Hallo Rüdiger, Rüdiger Noack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: man kann sich auch remote in einen Rechner einwählen, z.B. per Modem oder serieller Leitung. Letzteres ist sogar ganz praktisch, wenn man mehrere Rechner im Serverraum von anderer Stelle aus warten will (und der Netzwerkzugang gerade

Re: Getty stirbt :(

2002-08-13 Thread Alexander Stellwag
Hallo Rainer, Rainer Ellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander Stellwag schrieb: | open(tty2, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOSYS (Function | not implemented) open(tty2, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 | ENOSYS (Function not implemented) open(tty2, |

Re: Getty stirbt :(

2002-08-09 Thread Christian Leutloff
Alexander Stellwag [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: folgendes Problem: Server, Kernel 2.4.19, syslog via UDP auf zentralen Server. Im syslog tauchen dauern die Zeilen , | 'init: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes' | 'init: Id 2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes'

Re: Getty stirbt :(

2002-08-09 Thread Rüdiger Noack
Hallo Christian man kann sich auch remote in einen Rechner einwählen, z.B. per Modem oder serieller Leitung. Letzteres ist sogar ganz praktisch, wenn man mehrere Rechner im Serverraum von anderer Stelle aus warten will (und der Netzwerkzugang gerade nicht verfügbar ist). Ein serieller

Re: Getty stirbt :(

2002-08-08 Thread Ruediger Noack
Hallo Alexander Alexander Stellwag wrote: , | 'init: Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes' | 'init: Id 2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes' | 'init: Id 3 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes' | 'init: Id 4 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes' | 'init: Id

Re: Getty stirbt :(

2002-08-08 Thread Rainer Ellinger
Alexander Stellwag schrieb: | open(tty2, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOSYS (Function | not implemented) open(tty2, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 | ENOSYS (Function not implemented) open(tty2, | O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENODEV (No such device) Da werde ich nicht

Re: Getty stirbt :(

2002-08-08 Thread Ruediger Noack
Hallo Alexander, noch mal ich. ;-) Alexander Stellwag wrote: Kann es am Ende daran liegen, das der Rechner keine Grafikkarte hat? Ist das wörtlich zu nehmen? Keine Grafikkarte und keinen onboard-Grafik-Chip? Deine Console ist ein virtuelles Terminal? Wenn ja, dann schmeiss die Einträge

Re: getty problem

2000-12-11 Thread Kent West
Marvin Stodolsky wrote: On a old NEC 486 50mHz Versa V\50 laptop, the following periodically appears in the text console. What is an appropriate modification. MarvS -- Several repeats of: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host]

Re: getty, Id S respawning too fast

2000-11-08 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:26:10 +0100 (CET), Marcin Bie kowski wrote: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host] baud_rate,... line [termtype] or [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host] line baud_rate,...

Re: getty intervening repeatedly

2000-04-03 Thread kmself
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 09:17:03PM -0400, Paolo Benvenuto wrote: Hi all! I've installed slink on my laptop. 1. Unfortunatly, since the conclusion of the boot there appear a warnig saying something referring to /sbin/getty. It seems me that the function was not called in a correct

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-20 Thread andrew.macintyre
. Many thanks for your helpful response. am - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: getty vs minicom Date: 07/19/99 18:34 According to Andrew MacIntyre: Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Andrew MacIntyre: Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all debian mirrors. Could you tell me where then please. AFAICT, getty is packaged as base/getty, however such a package appears not to exist, either source or binary. mgetty I found w/o any probs. It's in

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-19 Thread andrew.macintyre
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: According to Andrew MacIntyre: As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an ancient Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more recent Debian box sigh. That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based locking

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew: I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should be able to access it. Well, yes, that's probbaly what it doesn, but

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread andrew.macintyre
control, so I won't worry about the problem further, although I was disappointed not be able to find the getty source package. Regards, Andrew. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Andrew MacIntyre: As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an ancient Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more recent Debian box sigh. That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based locking between dialin/dialout) which has

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-15 Thread Marc Mongeon
Andrew: I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should be able to access it. Unless I misunderstand something... Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe

Re: getty source

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Eugene Sevinian wrote: Hi, where can I find the source of (a)getty? It's in the util-linux package Regards, Joey PS: dpkg -S /sbin/getty tells you. -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.funet.fi Please always Cc to me when

Re: Getty Issue

1998-08-20 Thread Shaleh
Glad it works (we knew you chose mgetty somehow). Next time you are stuck like that, rather than re-install why not use the rescue disk (the first boot disk). Boo the machine w/ the disk in and choose the rescue option. This will allow you to mount the filesystem, edit the broke file and

Re: getty

1997-03-05 Thread tomk
Hamish Moffatt writes: On Mar 03, 1997 at 09:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the spelling) I tried vgetty --help and it reported mgetty FATAL. vgetty has voice extensions. I wish I knew how to set them up

Re: getty

1997-03-05 Thread Siggy Brentrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Moffatt writes: On Mar 03, 1997 at 09:17:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the spelling) I tried vgetty --help and it reported mgetty FATAL. vgetty has voice

Re: getty

1997-03-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the spelling) I tried vgetty --help and it reported mgetty FATAL. vgetty is an attempt to support a voice mailbox using voice capable modems. Since it was not too stable, the mgetty-voice

Re: getty

1997-03-04 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:17:45 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: getty Ok, what's the difference between mgetty and vgetty? (aside from the spelling) I tried vgetty --help and it reported mgetty

Re: Getty

1996-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
Lord Of The CLUTZ's [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering, when I installed debian it installed getty (or so I thought) however when I do man getty it gives me the man page for agetty, I would prefer to have getty, because it does a clear screen after logout, I prefer that better... any

Re: Getty ports - dumb question

1996-09-10 Thread Jim Worthington
Bill Roman wrote: They're running on your virtual consoles. Try holding down the left Alt key and pressing function keys. Log in on each virtual console. Pretty slick, eh? I used this feature a lot when I had only 4 MB of RAM, as that's not enough to run X in (unless you like watching

Re: Getty ports - dumb question

1996-09-09 Thread Bruce Perens
[Why do I have gettys running on tty1 through tty6? I only have 2 serial ports] These are virtual consoles using your VGA card. Push LeftAlt-F2 on your console (I think it's Control-LeftAlt-F2 or Shift-LeftAlt-F2 if you are running X) and you will be on tty2. And so on for Alt-F3, through Alt-F6.

Re: Getty ports - dumb question

1996-09-09 Thread Lazaro . Salem
I hope its a typo since ttyN is not the same as ttySN (N=0,1,etc) e.g., terminals vs. serial lines. Said that, by default I had more that the really existing serial lines (ttySN) configured To fix that edit the file you'll get after # find /etc | xargs grep tty I remember editing that