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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: inittab action entries under ISC 386/ix
Keywords: bootwait sysinit rebooting after rebuild
Message-ID: <1989Oct5.010113.1530@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 5 Oct 89 01:01:13 GMT
References: <965@dialogic.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <965@dialogic.UUCP> alan@dialogic.UUCP (Alan Murphy) writes:
>Hi,
> I am developing device drivers under ISC 386/ix 3.2 and I
>need to be able to create an inittab entry at build time. ...
>(basically the operation involves downloading code to a controller at
>power up time). ...

It's a lot easier to put your startup commands in a file in /etc/init.d
and link them into /etc/rc2.d, like all of the other startup commands.
That's the standard way to run initialization scripts and it's a lot less
fragile than fooling with inittab.
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John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
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