Re: kudzu needs to init_telinit to change its runlevel

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>]

Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:50 -0400, Linda Knippers wrote:
>   
>> Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:22 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> --- nsaserefpolicy/policy/modules/admin/kudzu.te        2007-01-02 12:57:51.000000000 -0500
>>>> +++ serefpolicy-2.5.8/policy/modules/admin/kudzu.te     2007-03-08 08:42:36.000000000 -0500
>>>> @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
>>>> init_use_fds(kudzu_t)
>>>> init_use_script_ptys(kudzu_t)
>>>> init_stream_connect_script(kudzu_t)
>>>> +init_telinit(kudzu_t)
>>>>
>>>> libs_use_ld_so(kudzu_t)
>>>> libs_use_shared_libs(kudzu_t)
>>>>         
>>> This seems odd to me.  Why would kudzu need to change the runlevel?  I
>>> thought it just detected and configured hardware.
>>>       
>> If it detects a serial console, and I assume tty devices in general, it
>> updates /etc/inittab and then wants to signal init via telinit to cause
>> init to re-read the inittab.  Its not changing run level, just causing
>> inittab to be re-read.
>>
>> Without this change we didn't get login prompts on serial consoles on
>> the first boot a system.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the description.  Merged.
>
>   
Thanks Linda.

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