Re: initab, process not starting.

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:54:09AM -0600, Murphy, Sean wrote:
Thanks for the reply.

However, I tried executing the command <telinit q> after editing the initab
with mkitab.
It does not read that entry.... It is very strange.

We like to have the entry set to <respawn> as if the process gets killed for
some reason then it will star again. (or at least it does on our other
servers)

init may not be able to use 'respawn' for dsmc. You may be stuck with 'once'.

You could write a wrapper script that init runs, that makes sure that if the
child 'dsmc' dies, it restarts it, and put this in the inittab entry.

Check your console, or errorlog (errpt) to see if init is putting warning
messages about the process 'respawning to rapidly'. If init senses that a
process is starting too many times, it will shut it down.

hth,

bob

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