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+# Setting up the agetty service in OpenRC
+
+The agetty service is an OpenRC specific way to monitor and respawn a
+getty, using agetty, on Linux. To use this method, make sure you aren't
+spawning a getty manager for this port some other way (such as through
+sysvinit/inittab), then run the following commands as root.
+
+Note that [port] refers to the port you are spawning the getty on, for
+example, tty1 or ttyS0. The full path to it, for example, /dev/tty1
+should not be used.
+
+```
+# cd /etc/init.d
+# ln -s agetty agetty.[port]
+# cd /etc/conf.d
+# cp agetty agetty.[port]
+#rc-update add agetty.[port] [runlevel]
+```