Hi! On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:29:43PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > I replaced one terminal of mine with: > 9:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty9 > > and it at least fixes this bug.
yes, mingetty is: 1) for virtual consoles only (i.e. no serial lines support and thus no bitness-autodetection) 2) more recent IIRC and more legacy-free IMHO > Do you know any reason to use getty No, I don't... > over mingetty on virtual consoles? BTW, in RedHat mingetty was used for VCs by default. I was surprised that Debian uses getty when I switched to Debian several years ago... > (Serial lines are a different issue, of course). Maybe this is the reason -- wish to have universal getty program capable of handling both VCs and serial lines? Tomasz, what getty do you use for virtual consoles in PLD (by default)? -- WBR, xrgtn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
