What replaces inittab in LTS 10.04.1

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:20:03AM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 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.

/etc/event.d is used by older versions of Upstart, e.g. the one that came
in Ubuntu 8.04.  Then the configuration syntax changed in a
backwards-incompatible way in a newer version of Upstart, and the
location changed to /etc/init.

Marius Gedminas
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