What replaces inittab in LTS 10.04.1

Hal Burgiss hal at burgiss.net
Fri Dec 24 16:20:03 UTC 2010


On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> 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'.


Where does /etc/events.d/* fit in all this  now? I thought that was part of
the new init processing.


-- 
Hal
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