[plug] inittab respawn

[Garth Atkinson]

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Robert Andrews wrote:
> 
> > > > ma:3:respawn:/usr/magicadm/sbin/mgrnt &
> > > > The run level is correct
> > > > the script works correctly
> > > > However when the task dies it does not restart
> 
> I was going to say: do an strace on init, see if it gets the signal from
> mgrnt dieing, and what happens next.  But the strace(1) man page says:
> 
>        On Linux, exciting as it would be, tracing the  init  pro­
>        cess is forbidden.
> 
> Bummer :(    Any alternatives?
> 
Has init be told to re-read the inittab file after you removed the
'&' character?