Questions tagged [inittab]
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T0 vs S0 in inittab for serial ttyS0 access
I can't find any documentation on what the difference between "S0" and "T0" in the inittab file for granting serial access to console is. People seem to use it interchangeably:
T0:12345:respawn:/sbin/...
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init / inittab respawn (count number of times it occurs) [closed]
I added the following line in my /etc/inittab to respawn a program if it crashes.
#test must always run.
aa:2345:respawn:/home/pi/test/test
Is there a way to know how many times the init/respawn ...
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Simplest infinite script exec without upstart
I've got a CentOS 5.11 box that I have to work with for now--in a production env where I can't really push it to CentOS 6, at least for awhile. I have to be low-impact on this project, can't mess up ...
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init: Id "2" respawning too fast
I've just updated a CentOS 5.10 box to 5.11 with all the latest patches and rebooted.
Following the reboot I'm now getting the below error message every few minutes:
init: Id "2" respawning too ...
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"No inittab file found" after reset
An old dedicated server (Debian with Raid1) wasn't responding today and now can't boot after manual reset. Last message is
No inittab file found.
I still have access to filesystem via rescue ...
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How to respawn a script in RHEL/Centos6 when /etc/inittab has been deprecated?
I have a custom init script and I want that script to be respawned if in case the process dies.
In RHEL/Centos 6 /etc/inittab is deprecated. So how should I ensure the process will be respawned?
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can't reset password from centos
I lost the root password. So I modified /etc/shadow and also changed '/etc/inittab' file to access single user mode. But both didn't work. It asked me for a password that I don't have. Why updating ...
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chkconfig vs /etc/inittab
I had a look at what chkconfig and /etc/inittab - from what I could see both does the same something.
If I am wrong, what is the different and which one I should use for specific requirement?
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(ubuntu) How to kill a respawn service
I like to respawn a service when the service goes down. I have added it to inittab however I cannot kill it when i need to.
Is there away i can respawn a service however be able to kill it manually ...
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/etc/inittab respawn script migrating from RHEL/CentOS 5.x to 6.x
I have a non-forking perl script running as a TCP-sockets daemon (this script is a backend for a multiplayer game) in CentOS 5.7. It is being started and respawned by /etc/inittab:
pref:3:respawn:/...
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Restarting a Perl-script (socket daemon) from /etc/inittab
I run a small multiplayer card game with around 500 users at peak times:
The client is in Flash and the server is in Perl.
The Perl server binds to port 8080, i.e. only 1 instance of it can be ...
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init.d script not working .... but the command works if I execute it in the console
I have a command that is working fine if I executed it from the command line ... but when I put it in an init.d script it wont's start (well .. it starts but have a behavior different from that when ...
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agetty IPMI serial console on RHEL respawning too fast
I have a dell poweredge 2970 server with a serial console over ip enabled on the first ethernet.
The server with Red Hat enteprise 5.4 is configured to have console over ttyS1 in grub (console=ttyS1,...
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(CeontOS) How to respawn lighttpd & MySQL in "/etc/inittab"
I need to manually create auto-respawning for lighttpd & MySQL to make sure it running all time
But what is the code to put in /etc/inittab?
thanks
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Start up a process before I log in? (linux)
I want to start up synergy on my suse box (gnome) automatically before (preferably, or after) I log in. How do I do this? I am a major Linux newbie and I tried writing the below on the last line of /...
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Using inittab to ensure sshd (and other important items) are still running -- any drawbacks?
Having managed to kill sshd on a remote machine (by running a script which used all available memory in the machine, oops...) which I have no access to other than visiting the hosting for[1], I was ...
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Change Run Level
I always forget how to do this, how to I change the inittab run level of a server/daemon?