[02:37] <twb> I am looking at /etc/event.d/ on an Ubuntu Server 8.04 system.
[02:38] <twb> Can someone explain why tty1 and tty2 differ in their start/stop parameters?
[02:42] <twb> It looks like tty2 through 6 are only active for runlevels 2 and 3.
[07:24] <JamesB192> twb: tty1 should also come up for single console mode. j/k I dunno.
[07:27] <JamesB192> I don't have any *buntu boxes or boxes w/ upstart, so I'm actually guessing wildly.
[07:29] <twb> JamesB192: out of curiosity, what are you running upstart on, then?
[07:30] <JamesB192> nothing atm, I haven't gotten around to (re)installing it on my ??ntoo box.
[07:30] <twb> Righto.
[07:32] <JamesB192> I think I remember though that some linux boxes have a single console mode for non live coaster rescue type stuff.
[07:32] <twb> They do; this is traditionally runlevel 1.
[07:33] <JamesB192> and no doubt in 30 minutes someone who know what they're talking about will explain what I'm missing.
[07:33] <JamesB192> but I answered first.
[07:33] <twb> I imagine that is very important to you.
[07:38] <JamesB192> I think I have a tarball with jobs similar to those, but I can't seem to find them atm.
[07:39] <twb> JamesB192: upstart's source contains some examples along those lines.
[09:55] <Keybuk> twb: actually, it's exactly as JamesB192 says
[09:56] <Keybuk> in Ubuntu, we don't start getty on tty2-6 unless in runlevel 2 or 3
[09:56] <Keybuk> just a hold-over from sysvinit
[09:57] <twb> Keybuk: it's not a holdover from sysvinit, because Debian's inittab starts all six in all those runlevels (2 through 5).
[09:57] <twb> Unless you're referring to an intermediary instance of inittab, or RH's inittab ;-)
[09:57] <Keybuk> I'm pretty sure ours didn;t
[09:57] <twb> Oh well.
[09:58] <twb> At least the differences make sense.
[09:59]  * Keybuk grabs a copy of sysvinit's source to check
[09:59] <Keybuk> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
[09:59] <Keybuk> 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
[09:59] <Keybuk> 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
[09:59] <Keybuk> 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
[09:59] <Keybuk> 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
[09:59] <Keybuk> 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
[10:00] <twb> What version is that from?  6.04?
[10:00] <Keybuk> current (karmic)
[10:00] <twb> Huh?  But most of inittab is completely ignored, at least in 8.04.
[10:00] <Keybuk> sure, we still have the source in the archive though
[10:00] <twb> Ah, OK.
[10:01] <Keybuk> err
[10:01] <Keybuk> I just grabbed the Debian source
[10:01] <Keybuk> it has the same
[10:01] <twb> Wow.
[10:01] <twb> What is Debian doing, changing behind my back?
[10:01] <Keybuk> how do you mean?
[10:01] <Keybuk> it looks like it's always been like this
[10:02] <twb> Maybe I misunderstood it, then.
[10:02] <Keybuk> can you paste the getty lines from yours?
[10:02] <twb> I could've sworn that at some time, probably around Sarge, it defaulted to :2345:
[10:02] <twb> Keybuk: eh, my instances are modified ;-)
[10:03] <Keybuk> doesn't look like it
[10:03] <twb> Oh well.
[10:04] <Keybuk> no idea why Debian is like this, of course
[11:52] <soren> Keybuk: Have you had a chance to look at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/372864 ?
[11:53] <Keybuk> if I haven't commented on it, I missed it
[11:53] <soren> You haven't :)