[plug] inittab respawn

[Kai]

Not sure, so I thought I might ask....you've used:
tail -f /var/log/messages
as root, before? that will show most (if not all ?) errors...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Andrews" <squirrel at emerge.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] inittab respawn


> 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.