Re: [uml-user] RedHat Advanced Server

[Ben F. <bf...@ew...>]

At 2:36 pm +0200 2003-06-29, Goetz Bock wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 29 '03 at 04:42, Nuno Silva wrote:
>> > Do you have a pointer for instructions on how to modify inittab? I have
>>
>> That's the same as you would do in a real linux system (I'm repeating
>> myself (: ). The main thing is that, if you don't configure virtual
>> terminals you must comment out the getties:
>>
>> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
>> ###2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
>> ###3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
>> ###4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
>> ###5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
>> ###6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
>>
>Actually you could have virtual terminals, but the main difference is
>that the main console will be on tty0. So add a getty for it:
>
>0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty0

I didn't have much luck with that line, but when I tried

0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 console

I got an error message:

/dev/console: cannot set process group: Inappropriate ioctl for device

which may mean something like

"Sounds like GETTY wants to establish that /dev/something-or-other
is a controlling terminal for a process group.   If so,  he is
almost certainly using  ioctl()  to do so.   Sounds like a constant
got changed between  'mingetty'  and your kernel=9C=F9

So am I SOL until I recompile my kernel, to get matching constanrs?

Ben.
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