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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty</H1>
+ <B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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+<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 08/03/12 16:27 did gyre and gimble:
+&gt;<i> Le jeudi 08 mars 2012 &#224; 10:38 -0500, Liam R E Quin a &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 14:17 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> So if we switch to mingetty in <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">getty at .service</A> we'll be sacrificing
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> serial console support.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Web hosting companies sometimes provide access to a serial console.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Then I guess they can also take the step of installing agetty or mgetty
+</I>&gt;<i> and configure it, since they have to configure it anyway. So we are just
+</I>&gt;<i> adding 1 rpm to install, documented to in the man pages ( and the rest
+</I>&gt;<i> of the web ).
+</I>
+Well I'm pretty sure the configuration is very minimal with systemd
+right now. Just a simply a matter of creating a <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">getty at ttys1.service</A>
+symlink or similar. If we patch the systemd to use mingetty, they'll
+maybe follow upstream docs and do this only to have it fail which is not
+goot.
+
+Of course we should perhaps not change <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">getty at .service</A>, but rather write
+a new <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mingetty at .service</A> and link <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">autovt at .service</A> to that instead but
+we'll also have to patch prefdm.service too to ensure the appropriate
+conflicts are updated.
+
+While this is totally possible, I've not seen any arguments in favour of
+mingetty. I believe agetty is lighter weight and uses less memory.
+
+Any actual arguments to specifically use mingetty?
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+
+Col
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+
+--
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
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