[ale] inittab respawn

[Jim Popovitch]

Newer versions of init will backoff (timewise) from repeatedly
respawning a process.

-Jim P.



On 1/7/08, Kevin O'Neill Stoll <kevinostoll at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was checking out (http://www.netadmintools.com/html/inittab.man.html) the
> inittab manpage looking for this answer but wanted some real world
> experience input.
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> Let's assume I have an entry in inittab:
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> 4:2345:respawn:/bin/does_not_exist
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> and the script/executable "/bin/does_not_exist" doesn't exist on this file
> system. Does the respawn
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> command just blindly attempt to execute that command regardless of the
> command not existing?
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> I suspect this would just cause an infinite loop?
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> thanks
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-Jim P.