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From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld)
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Subject: Re: Daemon Monitoring Daemon
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Date: 9 Apr 90 22:31:17 GMT
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In-Reply-To: merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of 9 Apr 90 16:42:47 GMT

In article <1582@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H Merritt) writes:

   Also, what is the equivalent of /etc/inittab on a BSD machine?

On "4.3 derivatives", it's /etc/ttys, and, yes, you can run nearly
anything from there.  The biggest thing to watch out for is that you
have to make sure that the daemon doesn't fork/exit and detach itself
from the controlling terminal, or else init will keep on restarting
it.

					- Bill

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