[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty

Fri Mar 9 00:52:04 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 08/03/12 16:27 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le jeudi 08 mars 2012 à 10:38 -0500, Liam R E Quin a écrit :
+>> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 14:17 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>>
+>>> So if we switch to mingetty in getty at .service we'll be sacrificing
+>>> serial console support.
+>>
+>> Web hosting companies sometimes provide access to a serial console.
+> 
+> Then I guess they can also take the step of installing agetty or mgetty
+> and configure it, since they have to configure it anyway. So we are just
+> adding 1 rpm to install, documented to in the man pages ( and the rest
+> of the web ).
+
+Well I'm pretty sure the configuration is very minimal with systemd
+right now. Just a simply a matter of creating a getty at ttys1.service
+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 getty at .service, but rather write
+a new mingetty at .service and link autovt at .service 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?
+
+
+Col
+
+
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