[ale] inittab respawn

[Michael Still]

init now a days detects if its having to respawn a process too much.
You'll get a respawning too fast message in syslog.  Check out:
http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/09.24.shtml

On Jan 7, 2008 4:29 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> Yes it will try to execute it and fail because it doesn't exist.  It
> will then respawn because it failed and fail again etc...
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> In older Unix this would in fact cause an infinite loop and severely
> impact performance on the server while it was respawning.   I haven't
> seen quite such a performance hit on newer Linux/UNIX but then again I
> rely a lot less on inittab than I did back in the days where everything
> was serial connections and inittab was a good way of conditioning the
> connections with getty etc...
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> You could try things like "once" that only try it one time and quit if
> unsuccessful.   The point in respawn is it gives you an easy way other
> than cron to insure a process is always restarted if it dies for some
> reason.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Kevin O'Neill Stoll
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 3:57 PM
> To: ALE
> Subject: [ale] inittab respawn
>
> 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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