[plug] inittab respawn

[Robert Andrews]

Hi all well it seems that init is trying to respawn this application when it
dies I think I now know what the problem is .
But blow me down I found it by causing  onother fault which forced me to put
a monitor on my linux box.
It was then that I could see all the error messages sent by init.
So my next question is why are these messages not sent to my terminal logged
on as root.
Are there some messages that are not sent to terminals or is there a way to
have all these messages sent to a terminal.
I understand that is not possable to send boot messages as the system is not
initilized.
I have knowdoubt that there is a log file I could probably tail for init
"some where" but what about in future i.e things I dont know about.
I would have been in a much better position had I seen these errors
displayed on my terminal.

Regards Bob Andrews.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Andrews" <squirrel at emerge.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] inittab respawn


> 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?
> >
> >
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