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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2016-11-01 15:58:42 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2016-11-01 15:59:24 +0100
commit4cfda129ef88e09f6af76549d0474ad0c8b5a413 (patch)
treef98480071995851e7aa8a0f8446410d49ae4bdc2 /open_issues
parent048d155b38321415cc19320f31c28ae4efaec589 (diff)
document workaround
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diff --git a/open_issues/increasing_bogus_port_at_boot.mdwn b/open_issues/increasing_bogus_port_at_boot.mdwn
index 9851557c..483b2844 100644
--- a/open_issues/increasing_bogus_port_at_boot.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/increasing_bogus_port_at_boot.mdwn
@@ -23,4 +23,9 @@ When the ntpdate package is installed, one gets at boot something like:
This is coming from the execution of the shell script
/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate, whose stdout/stderr is on the Mach console, but
part of which gets executed after getty starts on it. It happens that getty uses
-revoke() to revoke access to it from other programs, and thus the ntpdate shell scripts gets its stdout/stderr in a bogus state, which libc doesn't really cope with correctly.
+revoke() to revoke access to it from other programs, and thus the ntpdate shell
+scripts gets its stdout/stderr in a bogus state, which libc doesn't really cope
+with correctly.
+
+Commenting `c:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 console` from `/etc/inittab` works
+around the issue (but removes the getty from the Mach console)