Re: inittab question
Regards Bill Maidment Maidment Enterprises Pty Ltd -Original message- *From:* Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com *Sent:* Sunday 19th August 2012 12:25 *To:* Scientific Linux Users SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV *Subject:* inittab question Hi All, Why does this work: #/usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 but, placing this in my /etc/inittab does not? m0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1 I have run init q several times to no avail. Can anyone see a typo I am missing? # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep nothing After invoking from the command line, I get # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep 9827 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 What am I missing? Many thanks, -T On 08/18/2012 10:33 PM, Bill Maidment wrote: You need to put it in /etc/init/ nowadays. Read the notes at the top of /etc/inittab Thank you. I missed that. Now to figure out how to use /etc/init. -T
Re: inittab question
Regards Bill Maidment Maidment Enterprises Pty Ltd -Original message- *From:* Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com *Sent:* Sunday 19th August 2012 12:25 *To:* Scientific Linux Users SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV *Subject:* inittab question Hi All, Why does this work: #/usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 but, placing this in my /etc/inittab does not? m0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1 I have run init q several times to no avail. Can anyone see a typo I am missing? # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep nothing After invoking from the command line, I get # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep 9827 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 What am I missing? Many thanks, -T On 08/18/2012 10:33 PM, Bill Maidment wrote: You need to put it in /etc/init/ nowadays. Read the notes at the top of /etc/inittab Thank you. I missed that. Now to figure out how to use /etc/init. -T Figured it out. Scientific Linux/RHEL 6.x Create a file touch /etc/init/faxgetty.conf For ttyS1, fill it with start on runlevel [2345] stop on runlevel [S016] respawn exec /usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1 Then do: initctl start faxgetty
inittab question
Hi All, Why does this work: #/usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 but, placing this in my /etc/inittab does not? m0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1 I have run init q several times to no avail. Can anyone see a typo I am missing? # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep nothing After invoking from the command line, I get # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep 9827 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 What am I missing? Many thanks, -T
