[systemd-devel] getty at .service.m4 and serial-getty at .service.m4

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:49:11PM +1000, Andrew Edmunds wrote:
> 
> Incidentally, HP-UX used to have (possibly still has) a nice feature
> where getty would normally be started at the end of the boot sequence
> but you could press the Break key to start it immediately, if an
> init script was hanging for example.  As a wishlist item, perhaps
> getty could be started via some little helper program that provides
> similar functionality.

  systemd has that functionality – check kbrequest.target in man systemd.special.
It is not configured by default since few version, but it's here nevertheless.

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