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From: epa...@cats.ucsc.edu (Illustrious Ezra)
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Subject: Help with inittab
Date: 24 May 1993 04:51:21 GMT
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In an effort to make cdm work and exit correctly withiout
leaving zombie processes galore, I have moved the
xdm -nodaemon line from /etc/rc.local ro /etc/inittab.
However, in so doing, I had tons of problems and they
all stemmed from an incomplete understanding of the
format lines in inittab must take. Does documentation
exist somewhere describing the format and what option
are available for this file? For example, I have determined
that the c1,c2,c3 and so forth lines refer to virtual
consoles so I have commented out all lines except
c which I assume is the main console and then replaced
respawn getty with xdm, but the format for this baffls
me and for all I know that's a very foolish way
of doing things. Can someone help me out here?
Thanks,
Ezra
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From: ja...@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
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Subject: Help with inittab
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* In message <1tpk89...@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, Illustrious Ezra said:
IE> In an effort to make cdm work and exit correctly withiout
IE> leaving zombie processes galore, I have moved the
IE> xdm -nodaemon line from /etc/rc.local ro /etc/inittab.
IE> However, in so doing, I had tons of problems and they
IE> all stemmed from an incomplete understanding of the
IE> format lines in inittab must take. Does documentation
IE> exist somewhere describing the format and what option
IE> are available for this file?
Get the bootsys package from sunsite, tsx-11 or nic. Even if you decide not
to install it the documentation will be enlightening :-).
Mike
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From: miq...@caution.cistron.nl.mugnet.org (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
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Subject: Re: Help with inittab
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In article <240.2C...@purplet.demon.co.uk> ja...@purplet.demon.co.uk
(Mike Jagdis) writes:
>* In message <1tpk89...@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, Illustrious Ezra said:
>
>IE> In an effort to make cdm work and exit correctly withiout
>IE> leaving zombie processes galore, I have moved the
>IE> xdm -nodaemon line from /etc/rc.local ro /etc/inittab.
>IE> However, in so doing, I had tons of problems and they
>IE> all stemmed from an incomplete understanding of the
>IE> format lines in inittab must take. Does documentation
>IE> exist somewhere describing the format and what option
>IE> are available for this file?
>
>Get the bootsys package from sunsite, tsx-11 or nic. Even if you decide not
>to install it the documentation will be enlightening :-).
>
> Mike
>
Or get the new SysVinit package from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Daemons.
It has all the documentation you need (README + manpages).
I'll email pmacdona about it so that he can use it in the next SLS
release.
Mike.
miq...@cistron.nl.mugnet.org
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