From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 22 23:20: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFA737B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 23:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4N6K2d18452; Tue, 22 May 2001 23:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 23:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105230620.f4N6K2d18452@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: conf/27418: There are *no* examples of using /etc/ttys inittab-like feature Reply-To: Peter Pentchev Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/27418; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/27418: There are *no* examples of using /etc/ttys inittab-like feature Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:17:08 +0300 On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:30:03PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > The following reply was made to PR conf/27418; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Doug Barton > To: mwm@mired.org > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: conf/27418: There are *no* examples of using /etc/ttys inittab-like > feature > Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:20:09 -0700 > > mwm@mired.org wrote: > > > The init page mentions - in one paragraph - that /etc/ttys can be used to > > start a daemon, similar to the SysV /etc/inittab. This doesn't include an > > example, and there don't seem to be any such examples. > > I think that's because in practice it doesn't work well for daemons that > fork and put themselves in the background. getty doesn't do that, so init > holds it open continuously, and respawns a new copy if the one it's holding > open dies. In the case of a standard daemon, init will continuously restart > it since when init runs the command the copy it's trying to hold open > "disappears" each time. > > How would you feel about amending the man page to describe this problem > instead of adding an example to /etc/ttys? Isn't this the (standard, expected) behavior for init(8) when handling SysV-style /etc/inittab-started daemons? G'luck, Peter -- I am the meaning of this sentence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message