What package contains agetty and login?

lchxr · 07-21-2008, 10:39 AM

I want to experiment with slackware for building a minimum bootable partition. but I don't want to compile everything from scratch. I want to use slackware package. Can anyone tell me what package contains agetty and login program?

raconteur · 07-21-2008, 11:23 AM

The shadow package contains them.

trickykid · 07-21-2008, 11:24 AM

getty-ps is the getty packages I believe. util-linux includes agetty. util-linux also includes the login package that resides in /bin as well.

trickykid · 07-21-2008, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raconteur

The shadow package contains them.

Oops, yeah, forgot that Slackware uses shadow packages for the login command. On Red Hat and Fedora it's usually included in the util-linux package.

dugan · 07-21-2008, 12:21 PM

From http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt

Quote:

Which package contains <insert filename here>?

It's commonly considered the best way to find this information is through
searching Slackware's MANIFEST.bz2 file. You can find this file on the
Slackware CD in the slackware directory or on a Slackware mirror. (Note
that in older distributions, the file is called MANIFEST.gz, and is
found in the slakware directory).

One way to search MANIFEST.bz2 is to type the following:

less -p filename MANIFEST.bz2
(press n for next match found. Press q to exit. If you're not using
Slackware to run this command, you may have to decompress the bz2 file
with bunzip2 or "bzcat MANIFEST.bz2 |less".)

Sometimes a file won't be listed in MANIFEST.bz2, (usually because
it's created by a package's doinst.sh). In this case, see if it's
installed on your system already, using the following command:

grep -rl filename /var/log/packages

Most of the time, if you are searching for a program, the following
should produce more relevant results:

grep -rl filename$ /var/log/packages

tramni1980 · 07-21-2008, 02:59 PM

A very useful program is pkgcheck:
http://webplaza.pt.lu/uselpa/pkgcheck-1.1-noarch-1.tgz
which contains the "vlpcheck" command.
Install it with installpkg, see man vlpcheck and man pkgcheck.

In your case you will have to run as root:

Code:

vlpcheck update

and then as regular user:

Code:

vlpcheck which login
vlpcheck which agetty

On my system:

Code:

vlpcheck which login
login
  part : /bin/login
           shadow-4.0.3-i486-15

and
vlpcheck which agetty
agetty
part : /sbin/agetty
util-linux-ng-2.13.1-i486-1