Has anyone ever seen this?

[Igmar Palsenberg]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Mathias K=F6rber wrote:

> > The only thing that belongs in inittab is a list of (min)getty's for th=
e
> > terminal, and things like getty's for modems etc.
>=20
> That is a rather restrictive view.
> I'm still looking for a detailed justification for it.

I'm not talking about stuff in /etc/rc.d/ here, just the processes that
get started and kept alive by init(8).

You can easely control things in runlevels, stuff that is kept alive by
init itself is a lot harder to maintain.
I'm not saying it doesn't work, but it's bad practice.

> > The rest should go in runlevels. I've seen strange things happen with
> > weard things in /etc/inittab
>=20
> Like what? I have been using SysV-like init for years to
> start some daemons, w/o ill-effects.

A machine that went totally dead because init wanted to respawn something
that wanted to die.



=09Igmar