Questions tagged [agetty]
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How to restart agetty?
I'm trying to restart services after a yum update on RHEL 7.4. I could restart pretty much everything, but fail to see how to do this for agetty:
# needs-restarting
736 : /sbin/agetty --noclear tty1 linux
Systemctl does not recognize agetty as a…
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Why do I not get a console with systemd?
I'm trying to get a login prompt on an embedded system using Debian and systemd. The system is connected via a physical serial console to a host PC. If I start the kernel with the cmdline parameters console=ttyS5,115200 console=tty1…
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Can I activate password feedback on a tty?
A few weeks ago, I decided to clean up my keyboard and ended up messing up a few keys as I was snapping them back onto the board. As a result, some characters have become annoyingly difficult to enter... And obviously I use a few of said characters…
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how to start a new terminal with agetty (not systemd)
For the sake of learning, I wanted to start a new terminal (let's say tty10) from the command prompt. I know I can just run sudo systemctl start [email protected], but I want to run it manually for now. I checked systemd service getty@ and it uses…
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Which process is responsible for mapping Ctr+C to intr signal in systemd+agetty+login+bash?
I am trying to read source code to understand which process is reponsible for these mapping, but I can't still figure it out. Can anyone give me a hint about which code is relative to it ?
source code:
agetty+login(util-linux project),
systemd
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Delay between username and password during tty login
Recently, I noticed that when using tty to login to my computer, there was a delay (around 20 seconds) between the time I enter my username and the time I'm getting asked for my password. Where can it come from ?
I don't have such delay when using…
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How do I host a shell for a serial terminal?
I am building a dumb terminal with an arduino and I can now see the output of serial connections. How do I get a login/shell?
I have tried screen /dev/ttyACM0 and that lets me type on the host computer and see the results on the terminal screen, but…
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How can I set and export an environment variable in a systemd service?
after starting agetty on my Raspberry Pi in order to attach a VT420 terminal to it, I still have an issue: The shell language must be set to en_US and exported by hand right after logging in on the terminal (my version of Raspbian has German…
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How to adjust TTY terminal window size in VirtualBox?
In my virtual machines, both Linux and FreeBSD, the TTY (controlled by agetty under Linux; can be opened by pressing Host+Fn where n=1,2,3,...) window size is tiny (720x400), compared to the resolution of my screen (1920x1080). Is there a way to…
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tty1 missing login prompt
I have a clean Debian Stretch installation. It used to be the case that after booting I would end up on tty1 with a login prompt, and after logging X is started. I wanted to automate the logging in (because I'm the only user and my disk is encrypted…
user37050
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How to access agetty terminals (e.g. TTY2, 3, 4, etc.) from QEMU VM
In my QEMU virtual machine (started with qemu-kvm -boot d arch-freebsd.img -m 4096) I'd like to access an agetty terminal, which I'd normally access with Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or F3 if I need tty3, F4 if tty4, etc.), unfortunately pressing these keys just…
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Serial Getty error messages
I've a cloud server, with CentOS distribution, and an Apache instance to manage some web apps, like Wordpress or PrestaShop.
I noticed that an error is reported in log files (var/log/).
In particular in messages:
May 30 11:54:41 xxx00962 systemd:…
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How to enable automatic login in alpine linux for root
I am trying to set up an alpine linux machine that needs to run an user program at the startup.
I did not add any user except for root.
After searching for solution of how to enable automatic login i have found instructions that said i need to use…
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Does linux/systemd/agetty support doubble ended serial-getty consoles?
My apologies if this is a ultra basic question:
Does linux / systemd / agetty support double ended serial-getty consoles?
For example I have two remote servers A and B, they are running a recent ubuntu with systemd, agetty and screen…
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Let agetty (or other) switch off the laptop screen after a short while on non-UI linux
Using an older laptop as a small server with no graphical UI/login, it has an agetty running on the system console, i.e. the laptop screen.
Since I login almost always via network, there is no point having the screen switched on. It should be off…
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