On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 02:38:23PM +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> 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...
It works for me.
# grep autologin /etc/systemd/system/getty@.service
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin kzak --login-pause --noclear %I $TERM
# echo "Hello world!" >> /etc/issue
# agetty --reload
.. then I see the "Hello..." line before [press ENTER to login].
Karel
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