[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Thu Mar 8 17:27:59 CET 2012


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 ).

-- 
Michael Scherer



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