topic inittab entry failed to start process in Operating System - HP-UX

inittab entry failed to start process

Brent W. Moll — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:28:07 GMT

On reboot, an entry in /etc/inittab for an 11.0 server failed to start.. I'm not sure why

tsm::once:/usr/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1

Does anyone know what I missed in this ? Thank you :)

Re: inittab entry failed to start process

Mark Grant — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:31:31 GMT

It isn't in the inittab file that the problem is occuring but unfortunately you've sent any error messages to /dev/null so you can't read them. You might need to lose the > /dev/null 2>&1 to debug this properly.

Re: inittab entry failed to start process

Jeff Schussele — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:32:03 GMT

Hi Brent,

Appears to me you've left out the run-state level (0-6) that tells the system at what run-level to run the command. This is the second field. Most frequently used are 2 & 3, but if you need this at run-level 1, then use 1.

Rgds,
Jeff