[xen-tools] Re: question related to 30-fix-inittab hook

Eric Lemoine eric.lemoine at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 12:54:43 CEST 2006


On 8/17/06, Steve Kemp <steve at steve.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:41:05PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
>
> > The inittab hook, which changes 'tty[0-9]' to 'console', results in
> > having no job control in bash upon login (^C, ^Z and stuff don't
> > work), at least in my case:
>
>   Right I've had this reported a couple of times, but I haven't
>  been able to track it down.
>
> > Reverting to 'tty[0-9]' makes the problem vanish.
> > Is this a known issue?
>
>   kinda.
>
> > What's the rationale of the inittab hook?
>
>   If I don't make this change then my xen instances fail to have a
>  login prompt when running "xm console ...".

I don't have the issue here - I reverted to 'tty' and I can xm console
just fine.

-- 
Eric





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