Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Beep in serial mode

[mailing d. <mai...@gm...>]

I also think that using inittab is not the best way to do that.

Having the serial console enabled in inittab does not mean that the DL
in "serial mode".
I always enable serial acces to our DL boxes even if they are not in
"serial mode".

Anyway, I can still test it if you want.


2010/10/6 Dominic Raferd <dl...@ed...>:
>  Yes I was hoping 'mailing dl2' might try it.
>
> There may be a better way to detect a serial console, if someone can
> suggest it. I chose this because it is the way used in install-on-usb
> (e.g. line 492), so it seemed likely to work.
>
> Dominic
>
> On 06/10/2010 13:31, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>> I don't do serial mode, somebody else would have to test that.
>> Isn't there a better way than grep'ing the inittab to detect a serial console?
>>
>> Heiko
>>
>> Quoting Dominic Raferd<dl...@ed...>:
>>
>>>    Heiko found a problem that the new beeps were being called for all
>>> machines at boot time, not just those using serial. So please can I ask
>>> you, as a serial user, to test the fix by downloading the latest script
>>> in Mantis
>>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/devil-linux/view.php?id=90 and
>>> trying it. The only practical difference is that the line
>>>
>>> if [ "`tty`" = "/dev/console" ]; then
>>>
>>> is replaced with
>>>
>>> if grep "^S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty" /etc/inittab>/dev/null; then
>>>
>>> Dominic
>>>
>>> On 06/10/2010 12:52, mailing dl2 wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> In the 1.4rc6 the new lines a commented in the /etc/init.d/beep scripts.
>>>>
>>>> So it does not work "out of the box".
>>>>
>>>> If you uncomment them it works.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the modifications.
>>>>> I added it to CVS.
>>>>> I didn't get a chance to validate it myself yet, so I hope this works. ;-)
>>>>> Heiko
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