Debian Bug report logs - #747742
systemd does not honour /etc/inittab

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Wollrath <jwollrath@web.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: systemd does not honour /etc/inittab

Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 15:53:58 +0200

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Package: systemd
Version: 204-10
Severity: normal

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Dear Maintainer,

I do not need a whole bunch of tty's so I disabled all but one in runlevel 5
and enabled only 3 in my text-only runlevels 3 and 2 (excerpt from
/etc/inittab):

  # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels.
  #
  # The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
  # characters of the device (after "tty").
  #
  # Format:
  #  <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
  #
  # Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System,
  # so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X.
  #
  1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
  2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
  3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
  #4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
  #5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
  #6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

But when I use systemd and are e.g in runlevel 5 I can go to tty2, 3, ... and
will get tty's. Even when I am in runlevel 3, used e.g. 3 tty's and then
switch to runlevel 5, there are still 3 tty's open and not only just one tty,
tty1 as it is described by /etc/inittab.


With best regards,
Julian Wollrath

- -- Package-specific info:

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.15.0-rc5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl                  2.2.52-1
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts          2.88dsf-53
ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.6-1
ii  libc6                2.18-5
ii  libcap2              1:2.22-1.2
ii  libcap2-bin          1:2.22-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.4-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.2-1
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-4
ii  libkmod2             17-2
ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g             1.1.8-3
ii  libselinux1          2.2.2-2
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   204-10
ii  libsystemd-journal0  204-10
ii  libsystemd-login0    204-10
ii  libudev1             204-10
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-25
ii  sysv-rc              2.88dsf-53
ii  udev                 204-10
ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.7

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
pn  libpam-systemd  <none>

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

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Message #10 received at 747742-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>

To: Julian Wollrath <jwollrath@web.de>

Cc: 747742-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#747742: systemd does not honour /etc/inittab

Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 18:52:50 +0200

]] Julian Wollrath 

> I do not need a whole bunch of tty's so I disabled all but one in runlevel 5
> and enabled only 3 in my text-only runlevels 3 and 2 (excerpt from
> /etc/inittab):

/etc/inittab is only used by sysvinit, so you're correct, systemd
doesn't use that.  It's by design and not going to change.

systemd also spawns getty as needed on ttys, so you shouldn't need to do
the explicit management of getty as you've done in the past.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

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