From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 6:43:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c528925-a.kreska.org (c528925-a.plano1.tx.home.com [24.21.161.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7984037B422 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 06:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkreska@kreska.org) Received: from localhost (jkreska@localhost) by c528925-a.kreska.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4HDhPg35209; Thu, 17 May 2001 08:43:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jkreska@kreska.org) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:43:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeff Kreska X-Sender: jkreska@c528925-a.plano1.tx.home.com To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changes needed to /etc/ttys to enable inittab functionality In-Reply-To: <15106.63911.242900.337038@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 May 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Jeff Kreska types: > > I searched the archives and can't find any info on how to enable > > /etc/inittab functionality. > > If you really want /etc/inittab, you need to install a SysV-like > system instead of FreeBSD. If you have something specific you're > trying to do, you might ask about that and someone here can probably > tell you the BSD way to do it. > My named keeps core dumping, and I just wanted to have a proc monitor it and restart it when it dies. I noticed in the man page for init, that something could be added to /etc/ttys to enable /etc/inittab functionality. I thought inittab would be perfect for restarting a problematic daemon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message