Bug 627776

Summary: systemd is missing support for a serial console
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component: systemdAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2010-08-26 23:09:18 UTC
Description of problem:

The following content can be found in /etc/init/serial.conf

# Automatically start a configured serial console
#
# How this works:
#
# On boot, a udev helper examines /dev/console. If a serial console is the
# primary console (last console on the commandline in grub),  the event
# 'fedora.serial-console-available <port name> <speed>' is emitted, which
# triggers this script. It waits for the runlevel to finish, ensures
# the proper port is in /etc/securetty, and starts the getty.
#
# If your serial console is not the primary console, or you want a getty
# on serial even if it's not the console, create your own event by copying
# /etc/init/tty.conf, and changing the getty line in that file.

start on fedora.serial-console-available DEV=* and stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

instance $DEV
respawn
pre-start exec /sbin/securetty $DEV
exec /sbin/agetty /dev/$DEV $SPEED vt100-nav

That is pretty important if you need a serial console.  I tried to find some kind of an equivalent in /etc/systemd/ tree and I do not see any.  Do I miss something?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-7-3.fc14.x86_64

Additional info:
The issue was raised as a part of an already CLOSED bug 627020.  As comment 3 there did not elicit any reaction so it looks that it is time to bring it on its own.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2010-08-27 00:17:50 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 621290 ***