Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!shelby!rutgers!att!icus!lenny
From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: editing /etc/inittab
Message-ID: <725@icus.islp.ny.us>
Date: 17 Jun 89 22:16:27 GMT
References: <724@flatline.UUCP>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
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In article <724@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
|>
|>From lenny's README that he packaged with his fsck/rc neato package.
|>>(yes, you can edit /etc/inittab carefully).
|>
|>What's the problem with editing /etc/inittab?  I've done this on
|>a variety of UNIX systems for hte past couple of years.  Usually
|>it's when I'm setting up terminals or logins...
|>
...
It was a joke! :-) ...   I simply meant be careful when modifying that
file, leaving off blanks in the beginning can really confuse the UNIX pc
/etc/init process.

-Lenny
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