[plug] inittab respawn

[Robert Andrews]

Hi Mike yes i have rebooted the system after Removeing "&" also "init Q"
make no diff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Atkinson" <garth at cclinic.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] inittab respawn


> 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?
>
>