Bug 372399

Summary:	sys-apps/sysvinit: inittab agetty port/baud options swapped
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tony Murray <tonymurray>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tony Murray 2011-06-20 19:28:02 UTC

The command line options for agetty in /etc/inittab seem to be out of order.  I noticed this when trying to get a serial console working.

The man page for agetty says it should be "agetty port baud_rate,...  [term]".

In the inittab file the baud_rate is before the port. "/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100"

It should be "/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100"

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-06-29 19:50:44 UTC

both work fine.  from the agetty source:
    /* Accept "tty", "baudrate tty", and "tty baudrate". */

considering this is how many people have invoked it over many years, i'd rather not change something that is working fine