From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] poeigl-1.7 and admutil-1.4 available Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:55:29 GMT
In article <921105155@avatar.GUN.de> sebi@avatar.GUN.de (Sebastian Lederer) writes:
>Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk) wrote:
>: Getty will now write an entry to /etc/wtmp each time it is started, so
>: "last" won't show "still logged in" until another logs in on that tty.
>:
>: I fixed "last" so it would work properly with the fixed getty.
>
>Hmm...no offense intended, but the logout records should be the job of init,
>not of getty. The SystemV-compatible init-process from your admutils-package
>does exactly this whenever a child of init dies. After I made some slight
>modifications, I have been running it since 0.96 without any problems, and
>none of the three flavours of "last" I have had to be changed. I think this
>is a more "standard" solution to the problem, since not everyone uses the
>getty-program of the admutils-package. By the way, the SysV-Init does not
>only have a single-user-mode, but different runlevels, which can be very
>handy, for example, to enable logins on a modem line, I have to change the
>runlevel only instead of editing inittab etc. .
[...]
>I am not at all in favour of System V or anything, but I think there's
>nothing wrong in keeping up with usual UN*X standards...and writing the
>logout-records in getty is a little bit unusual.
>If anyone should be interested in the patched version of the SysV-init, mail
>me...
>
>--
>Sebastian Lederer "And crawling on the planets face - Some insects, called
>sebi@avatar.GUN.de the human race. Lost in time and lost in space -and in
>------------------- meaning" - The Narrator of the Rocky Horror Picture Show
I agree that the SysV compatible stuff is "better" because of the
reasons outlined above. Is there any reason that we cannot use the
ysV init as the Standard init for Linux? I think having two inits
around is a Bad Thing (tm) anyway - it confuses matters for no really
good reason.
Peter: Would it be possible for you to fold Sebastian's patches back
into the admutils package? Would you consider just providing the SysV
init? You pretty much control what Linux's login sequence looks like
(realistically).
Please let up know what you think.
- Ken