From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Calinescu Subject: Re: Serial Terminal - Can't get getty to run via inittab Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:50:45 +0300 Message-ID: <46156F35.3030900@snobu.org> References: <461261BF.8050509@livedata.com> <46151E5F.3080105@livedata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46151E5F.3080105@livedata.com> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Chris DiTrani wrote: > So it turns out I was starting a script-based service in rc.local > without sending it to the background with '&', so the last bit of the > init process wasn't happening. > > Haven't been this stumped by something this stupid in a while... If it helps i once spent 2 straight days troubleshooting in mayhem just to find the problem exactly where you did. We all got some sort of ADD, just that over time it can get you to SUBSTRACT.. (ok, ok, that sounded better in my head) --Adrian.