Re: agetty and special chars @ and #

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>]

On Fri, 16.11.12 11:14, Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:27:20PM +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > Indeed this is a good solution ... but in the case of systemd and its
> > getty generator we may think about a /etc/agettytab with a similar
> > syntax scheme as the old /etc/inittab to be able to provide agetty
> > options based on the used tty line.  Clearly this /etc/agettytab should
> > be parsed by agetty and options for the specified tty are found:
> > 
> >   1:tty1:--noclear %p
> >   2:tty2:%p
> >   3:tty3:%p
> >   4:tty4:%p
> >   5:tty5:%p
> >   6:tty6:%p
> >   S0:ttyS0:--erase-chars # --kill-chars @ -mt 60 %p 9600,2400,1200
> >   S1:ttyS0:-L 9600 %p 9600 vt102
> 
>  Hmm, I guess it's still possible to create tty line specific config
>  file on systems with systemd. I'd like to avoid another place where
>  will be configuration.

Please do not add such a configuration file.

In systemd, if people want to configure line-specific getty
configuration they should just copy
/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service to
/etc/systemd/system/getty@ttyS0.service and edit it there. Since systemd
will first look for instantiated unit files, and only then fall back to
generic template this should do the right thing.

Lennart

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