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| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/increasing_bogus_port_at_boot.mdwn | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
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) |