On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Daenyth Blank<daenyth+a...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:23, Randy Morris<randy.mor...@archlinux.us> wrote: >> I think of out all the options here, copying the current inittab to >> .pacsave and installing a new, working inittab makes the most sense. >> Then a user would at least have a chance to boot and read their logs to >> see what happened if they even notice there is a problem. >> > > This is exactly what Arch *doesn't* do, and it provides .pacnew files > for this purpose. >
But in this special case, you could always do : sed -i'.pacsave' 's#vc/\([0-9]\)#tty\1#' /etc/inittab
