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Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

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On Saturday 08 June 2019 04:55:45 am tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 09:44:23PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > But first you need to know the name of the man page. You can't read
> > it if you don't know its true name...
>
> Not a user of systemd here, but... have you ever tried "man -k
> systemd"?
>
No, didn't know it existed Tomas, but howinhell is all that supposed to 
help?  Must be 3 or 4 screens full.  What we'd need to do is to feed all 
that to grep to see if the problem child device is mentioned.

I think we could, but the resultant cli would be too long. Maybe if we 
could nuke the comments and only use the filename? But even then it 
would be over a kilobyte. Even that fails:
gene@coyote:/CoCo/pyDriveWire/config$ grep usbS0 `man -k systemd`
grep: deb-systemd-helper: No such file or directory
(no path to it from the instant `pwd`)
grep: (1p): No such file or directory

And 2 minutes later its still stuck there. But does quit with a ctl-c.
Perhaps the list could be a source for locate? But that would blow up on 
the comments too.

Somewhat past ridiculous, into sublime, but you get my point. I hope.

Thank for educating me about the -k. However, the -K option seems as if 
it may be what is needed. Lets see. No, it doesn't find usbS0.  No help 
there IOW.

But it does find ttyS. In at least 10% of the pages. Thats less than 
usefull.

Nice try, it did look promising. It also would take several hours to grep 
the whole man tree.

> Cheers
> -- t

You too.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2019-06-07 00:20 +0200
  Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-07 07:30 +0200
    Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-06-07 12:30 +0200
      Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-07 17:50 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-07 21:30 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-06-07 21:30 +0200
          Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-07 21:40 +0200
          Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-06-07 23:20 +0200
          Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-08 03:50 +0200
            Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-08 11:00 +0200
              Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-06-08 11:10 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-06-08 11:30 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? andreimpopescu@gmail.com - 2019-06-29 08:50 +0200
              Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-08 17:30 +0200
                Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-06-08 21:30 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-07 21:30 +0200
          Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-08 03:40 +0200
      Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-07 21:30 +0200
        systemd-nspawn (was Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?) Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-06-07 22:00 +0200
        Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-08 03:40 +0200

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