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<H1>[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 09/03/12 01:40 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On 03/08/2012 03:17 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
</I>>><i> Hi,
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Since switching to systemd, the mingetty we used to default to in
</I>>><i> inittab has been replaced by agetty (the default choice upstream).
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> The question is should we switch it back to mingetty?
</I>>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Lookin other things I also looked at agetty manual, and found a couple
</I>><i> useful things:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> o Optionally displays an alternative issue file instead of /etc/issue.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> o Optionally does not ask for a login name.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> o Optionally invokes a non-standard login program instead of
</I>><i> /bin/login.
</I>
To play devils advocate (I would personally prefer to just use agetty!),
mingetty does support at least the second two as well.
><i> This looks ideal for the case where prefdm fails and you want to show
</I>><i> a big barner about it on tty1, or even drop the user direcly into
</I>><i> drakx text mode without any login. Perhaps it can be done in prefdm
</I>><i> if launching DISPLAYMANAGER fails.
</I>
See the latest initscripts+systemd package. This is exactly what I've
done! Great minds think alike I'd say! (tho' I'm using mingetty for now
- partly because I wanted to play with it - I do intend to use agetty
instead however)
><i> So, if space or memory is not an issue, I will go for agetty in both
</I>><i> systemd and inittab.
</I>
I'm not sure how much of a space saving it is, as the mingetty package
is only 34k. But every little helps :)
And while it does use more memory, I'm not sure anyone would
particularly lose all that much sleep over it (I think my previous
argument was a little weak!) :D
Col
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