Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

[Mick]

On Saturday 08 Aug 2015 07:57:29 Felix Miata wrote:
> I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to
> automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed,
> especially someone who has just gotten a new installation up for the first
> times. Why isn't --noclear set by default?

It used to be the default, but a 4-5 years ago it changed.  I think the devs 
decided to change sysvinit, probably for security reasons.


> Once I set this and rebooted I saw several things that needed fixing that I
> didn't have a clue about:
>
> 1-error loading /etc/.../hostname (I had copied it from openSUSE
> installation instead of following installation instruction, and without
> reading or saving the existing one)
>
> 2-depending on hostname working, syslog-ng fails to start
>
> 3-missing mount points
>
> As a consequence of my ineptitude (and prior to reading
> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/FQDN)

This is a really old archive, so anything you read there should not be taken 
as gospel, it may well have been deprecated.  The current Gentoo wiki is at:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page


> I did emerge -s hostname, found a package
> by that name, and chose to emerge it. 30 minutes later, it and 3 dep
> packages were still compiling, lots lots longer than a kernel compile. :-(

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Regards,
Mick