Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 28, 2013 2:33 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by mezcalero
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

doing a quick bit of googleing here, it looks like RHEL is shipping support for inittab in it's upstart driven versions.

This makes a lot of sense to me, the lack of inittab support in upstart is a mistake. It's too bad that systemd is copying this mistake. It will just require people to work around it.

Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 29, 2013 10:01 UTC (Tue) by michich (guest, #17902) [Link]

No, one cannot use inittab in RHEL 6 to spawn any custom services. The RHEL 6 Migration Planning Guide says:

The /etc/inittab file is deprecated, and is now used only for setting up the default runlevel via the initdefault line. Other configuration is done via upstart jobs in the /etc/init directory.

... and then goes on to describe how to setup a custom getty instance using an upstart job.