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- From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] poeigl-1.7 and admutil-1.4 available
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.185529.12251@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Nov3.090246.29076@daimi.aau.dk> <921105155@avatar.GUN.de>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:55:29 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <921105155@avatar.GUN.de> sebi@avatar.GUN.de (Sebastian Lederer) writes:
- >Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk) wrote:
- >: Getty will now write an entry to /etc/wtmp each time it is started, so
- >: "last" won't show "still logged in" until another logs in on that tty.
- >:
- >: I fixed "last" so it would work properly with the fixed getty.
- >
- >Hmm...no offense intended, but the logout records should be the job of init,
- >not of getty. The SystemV-compatible init-process from your admutils-package
- >does exactly this whenever a child of init dies. After I made some slight
- >modifications, I have been running it since 0.96 without any problems, and
- >none of the three flavours of "last" I have had to be changed. I think this
- >is a more "standard" solution to the problem, since not everyone uses the
- >getty-program of the admutils-package. By the way, the SysV-Init does not
- >only have a single-user-mode, but different runlevels, which can be very
- >handy, for example, to enable logins on a modem line, I have to change the
- >runlevel only instead of editing inittab etc. .
- [...]
- >I am not at all in favour of System V or anything, but I think there's
- >nothing wrong in keeping up with usual UN*X standards...and writing the
- >logout-records in getty is a little bit unusual.
- >If anyone should be interested in the patched version of the SysV-init, mail
- >me...
- >
- >--
- >Sebastian Lederer "And crawling on the planets face - Some insects, called
- >sebi@avatar.GUN.de the human race. Lost in time and lost in space -and in
- >------------------- meaning" - The Narrator of the Rocky Horror Picture Show
-
- I agree that the SysV compatible stuff is "better" because of the
- reasons outlined above. Is there any reason that we cannot use the
- ysV init as the Standard init for Linux? I think having two inits
- around is a Bad Thing (tm) anyway - it confuses matters for no really
- good reason.
-
- Peter: Would it be possible for you to fold Sebastian's patches back
- into the admutils package? Would you consider just providing the SysV
- init? You pretty much control what Linux's login sequence looks like
- (realistically).
-
- Please let up know what you think.
-
- - Ken
-