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what happend to /etc/dinit.d/tty1 it no longer is here

i updated my artix dinit system today sunday 24sept23 about 8am EST.
i was surprised to find that after the update that i could not find the tty1 file that i expected to find at location /etc/dinit.d/tty1.
what gives. it was there before the update.
if it was moved because of the update i would like to know where the new file location for tty1 is OR how i can edit this file for my own personal use like establish autologin.
thankyou em

systemd  should not be the only init system out there.  AND ...

Re: what happend to /etc/dinit.d/tty1 it no longer is here

Reply #1 –
All "system"/bootup dinit files have been moved to /usr/lib/dinit.d so that /etc/dinit.d contains services in separate packages and user-created services.

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if it was moved because of the update i would like to know where the new file location for tty1 is OR how i can edit this file for my own personal use like establish autologin.
thankyou em

I really should've thought about it, but while you can edit it directly, should there be an update to the getty files, it will be overwritten. I recommend you to create a new service in /etc/dinit.d and for now delete agetty-tty1 or whatever tty you use (for the next dinit-rc update I'll give a heads-up through a post_upgrade message), I'll think about configurable gettys (i.e. adapt Chimera Linux's console-setup and getty files to our use case) so users can customize it as they see fit.
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Re: what happend to /etc/dinit.d/tty1 it no longer is here

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Quote from: konimex – on
All "system"/bootup dinit files have been moved to /usr/lib/dinit.d so that /etc/dinit.d contains services in separate packages and user-created services.

Quote from: ilovlinux – on
if it was moved because of the update i would like to know where the new file location for tty1 is OR how i can edit this file for my own personal use like establish autologin.
thankyou em

I really should've thought about it, but while you can edit it directly, should there be an update to the getty files, it will be overwritten. I recommend you to create a new service in /etc/dinit.d and for now delete agetty-tty1 or whatever tty you use (for the next dinit-rc update I'll give a heads-up through a post_upgrade message), I'll think about configurable gettys (i.e. adapt Chimera Linux's console-setup and getty files to our use case) so users can customize it as they see fit.
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thankyou so much for informing me of the situation.
(now only the dinit guy in artix) .
i happen to have 2 artix dinit systems running and was able to copy tty1 thru tty6 to a  pendrive and transfer the files to my ailing system and the addition of these 6 tty1 thru tty6 files which tty1 contained my autologin entry  so these 6 files added to /etc/dinit.d/ worked.
autologin restored. 
but the information you gave me  i will ponder deeply  your work around until...
thankyou em
archlinux is cool and artix is cool and i cannot think of a pair of better oses outthere except perhaps competing win11 macos and such which are a category all of their own.



systemd  should not be the only init system out there.  AND ...

Re: what happend to /etc/dinit.d/tty1 it no longer is here

Reply #3 –
As of dinit-rc-0.2.1 which should arrive at your mirror in a few hours, tty1 through tty6 should be configurable now without having to touch the file itself. (Also I've moved them again to /etc/dinit.d).

To configure it, you will need to copy /etc/dinit.d/config/agetty-default to the tty of your choice (e.g. /etc/dinit.d/config/agetty-tty1). After that, you can add any agetty-compatible argument in AGETTY_ARGS=, such as AGETTY_ARGS="--autologin user".
now only the dinit guy in artix