What replaces inittab in LTS 10.04.1

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 09:31:56AM -0600, Linda wrote:
> I went to enter the line to make mgetty listen for login on serial to
> inittab and it does not exist in LTS 10.04.1. Where do you do this
> now?

Upstart replaced SysV init in Ubuntu.  Getty processes for virtual
consoles are set up in /etc/init/tty1.conf through tty6.conf; you can
set up a serial console by creating /etc/init/ttyS0.conf, based on one of
the others.  To test it without rebooting, run 'sudo start ttyS0'.

> The documation I'm finding for mgetty still tells you to use
> inittab.

Which documentation?  If it's the manual page that comes with Ubuntu's
mgetty package, I'd say it's worth reporting a documentation bug.

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
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