topic Re: using inittab in Operating System - HP-UX

using inittab

vladimir gershman — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:26:28 GMT

Greetings,

At the very end of /etc/inittab i have a user script No.1 that starts an application in a background. I decided to put another user program No.2 before the No.1 script. Now No.2 runs, but No.1 does not run anymore. No.1 is located in /etc, No.2 is in /home/me directory.
Are there any issues with running user aps from inittab? I know it is not reccomended to run from inittab, but due to our configuration management dictatorship, i have to start the aps from inittab for now.

Thanks,
Vlad

Re: using inittab

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:31:03 GMT

I've only modified /etc/inittab for two reasons:

1) The change the default run level of the machine.
2) To configure the machine to shutdown when the UPS says to.

I would take caution at just spawning an application there. Solve the problem. A mistake in /etc/inittab could easily have your box at its knees, very fast.

SEP

Re: using inittab

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:38:49 GMT

Hi Vlad:

Post your two applications entries from 'etc/inittab', please.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: using inittab

blal — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 10:08:49 GMT

Hi

Better way is you can configure new start/stop scripts and put in appropriate run level directory.For example put the start script in
/sbin/rc2.d for run level 2 and /sbin/rc1.d will contain the stop script script.

The template file for this is available in /sbin/init.d/template .

This is the recommented practice.

Inittab is a systemwide initialisation file, which generally contains entries to start all system processes while boot up.

regards,
baiju

Re: using inittab

vladimir gershman — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 11:14:11 GMT

Thanks all. I may know what the issue was. I used the same ID name for both processes and the man page says that one is usually igonred.