[BusyBox] Re: inittab: askfirst vs. respawn problem

[Mark Jessee]

Anyone have any thoughts on this?  Is this a bug or am I just doing
something wrong in my init scripts (more likely).

Thanks,
Mark

On 7/28/05, Mark Jessee <mjessee04 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm fairly new to Busybox and am trying to setup my x86 single-board
> computer. I want the inittab to start an askfirst getty on the main
> system console (tty1?). When I try to do this I get the error message:
> 
> -sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> 
> If I set any other tty (tty2-4 on my system) to askfirst there is no
> error message.
> 
> I've searched the mailing list archives and this is mentioned in a few
> places, but I still can't seem to figure this out. In the inittab if I
> replace "askfirst" with "respawn", it works fine.
> 
> Any ideas? I do want to have the getty on the system console, vs. just
> going directly to the shell as in the example provided in the Busybox
> documentation. Having askfirst would be nice as well.
> 
> My inittab looks like this:
> 
> ::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
> 
> tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 vt100
> # changing the above "respawn" to "askfirst" gives
> # the "job control turned off" error
> tty2::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 vt100
> tty3::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 vt100
> tty4::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 vt100
> 
> # Stuff to do when restarting the init process
> ::restart:/sbin/init
> 
> # Stuff to do before rebooting
> ::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
> ::shutdown:/bin/umount -a -r
> ::shutdown:/sbin/swapoff -a
> 
> Any help is appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Mark
>