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Questions tagged [inittab]

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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 considering ways to ensure that sshd is always kept…
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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 when i need to. thanks in advance
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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=ttyS1,57600 ) and in /etc/inttab I…
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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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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 started (important detail). The Perl server poll()s…
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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?
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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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/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:/bin/su -c '/usr/local/pref/pref.pl >/tmp/pref-`date…
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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 this production box. I have a script, call it…
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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 fast: disabled for 5 minutes Line 2 of /etc/inittab…
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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 it is run directly). Any idea why this is not…
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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/getty -L ttyS0 115200…
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init / inittab respawn (count number of times it occurs)

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 event occurs ? Is there a log file for inittab ? I'm…
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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 system. Ran fsck and checked raid (both arrays are…
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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 /etc/inittab syn:5:once:synergys --config…
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