On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:33:08PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:24:38PM -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:45 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:57:08PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:53:31PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:56:40 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm open to better ideas, though - should we ship a trimmed
inittab
> > > > > that contains *only* the initdefault line? Should we introduce a
new
> > > > > configuration flag somewhere else? Does it really matter in the
long
> > > > > run?
> > > >
> > > > At the very least leave an inittab file that contains a note that it
> > > > is not used anymore. Much better than having to find out the new
> > > > structure on your own.
> > >
> > > Yes, it should have a comment pointing to /etc/sysconfig/init. And on a
> > > related note where can you configure the starting of mingetty/agettty
> > > processes for serial consoles / text consoles,
>
> /etc/event.d/tty[1-6] and /etc/event.d/serial
>
> > and where do you override the default C-A-D handling ?
>
> /etc/event.d/control-alt-delete
>
> There should probably be comments in the new /etc/inittab that point
> people to these files (and a mention of a reference for event file
> syntax). Something like:
This information should be in the man pages for init. The current upstart
man page doesn't cover any of this stuff
I've added this bug to request man page docs for configuration
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439245
IMHO, this should be a release blocker since it is a major change in the
distro that will trip up users familiar with old style init configuration.
Dan.
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