Axel Bock <axel@romteck.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have this little problem: for a somewhat embedded linux system I
> require the system on console tty1 NOT to display a login prompt, but to
> start a shell script with a certain user and group ID.

You want to use rungetty. Don't just change /etc/inittab to run another
program, because there are terminal issues, such as carriage return
sequences. You'll find that if you don't use rungetty, you may very well
get stair-stepping.

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