diff -up mgetty-1.1.36/voice/man/man8/vgetty.8.sd mgetty-1.1.36/voice/man/man8/vgetty.8 --- mgetty-1.1.36/voice/man/man8/vgetty.8.sd 2001-12-22 23:52:43.000000000 +0100 +++ mgetty-1.1.36/voice/man/man8/vgetty.8 2012-11-22 16:21:22.744169858 +0100 @@ -10,8 +10,13 @@ vgetty \- voice extension to the mgetty+ .RI ttydevice .B vgetty -is not meant to be run from the command line. It should be -run from the /etc/inittab file so it can respawn after each +is not meant to be run from the command line. + +Systems with +.B SysV initscripts +should start +.B vgetty +from the /etc/inittab file so it can respawn after each call. Here is a typical inittab entry: S0:345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/vgetty ttyS0 @@ -21,6 +26,11 @@ If you already have a line in your initt replace it with .B vgetty, since it replaces/extends its functionality. + +.B systemd +\- +.B vgetty +contains vgetty@.service unit file template. It is possible to enable an instance of a vgetty to run on a particular device (e.g. systemctl enable vgetty@ttyS0.service). See systemd.unit(5) for further details. .SH DESCRIPTION .B vgetty is an extension to the mgetty+sendfax program which provides