Re: getty repeating too quickly on port `/dev/console', sleeping
David Laight <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:43:05 +0100
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:10:28PM -0400, Gary Thorpe wrote: > > I see a constty in the /dev directory, but is it documented anywhere (I > had not heard of it until now)? What can it be used for besides > this/what is it intended for? I added /dev/constty in order to get sysinst to be a able to capture system messages and then write them to the console (without generating a loop). I had intended to change the getty, but was told it couldn't be changed.... But it is used by init for the terminal when it spawns the install shell. David -- David Laight: [email protected]