From 1050f2b5636ad4601ccc87bdf5a07c5c44a8e9a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davin McCall Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 23:13:02 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note that inittab-id/-line have no effect if utmp not supported. --- doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 b/doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 index a46cd31..d0fd004 100644 --- a/doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 +++ b/doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 @@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ The "utmp" database is mostly a historical artifact. Access to it on some system prone to denial-of-service by unprivileged users. It is therefore recommended that this setting not be used. However, "who" and similar utilities may not work correctly without this setting (or \fBinittab-line\fR) enabled appropriately. + +This setting has no effect if Dinit was not built with support for writing to the "utmp" +database. .TP \fBinittab-line\fR = \fItty-name-string\fR This specifies the tty line that will be written to the "utmp" database when this service -- 2.25.1