Hi Jude,

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Mr. Ssemwogerere Jude T.B wrote:

> I want to add this command and have it executed as long as the system is 
> running.
> 
> "top -u root -c > /dev/tty1"
> 
> I tried adding it to the init process of runlevel 3 but the system does not 
> complete loading the runlevel.
> 
> Any hints ?

I guess init doesn't know how to redirect file descriptors to a file, 
that's normally done by the shell.

You could try this:

  top:3:/bin/sh -c "top -u root -c > /dev/tty1"

Cheers, Chris.
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