Re: agetty --reload

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On 9 March 2015 at 11:52, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 09:02:11PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
>> The main issue seems to be that /etc/issue isn't reparsed when agetty
>> --reload is done unless /run/agetty.reload exists before the original
>> agetty is started. Is this the intended behaviour?
>
> No, this is a bug, fixed by commit c9f5ec0faa2b2d9cf7fc162baf99499457b8b909.
>
>> The second issue occurs when --autologin and --login-pause are being
>> used and a reload happens even when the above is done. Since the login
>> program hasn't actually been started (as we are waiting for the user
>> to press enter) I expected the reload to cause agetty to reload
>> /etc/issue and start waiting again but this does not currently happen.
>> Is this also intentional?
>
> Well, it wasn't implemented, improved by commit c2ef308bbfdc9fb9a0053e258828f5bd6fbb0c5d.
>
> The changes will be in v2.26.1.

Phew, that was fast! I've found with your patches the first issue is
fixed but when waiting at the [press ENTER to login] prompt agetty
--reload still has no effect...

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