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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at!not-for-mail From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Constant rebooting of hard drive (PLEASE HELP) Date: 18 Mar 1993 16:09:55 +0100 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1oa3c3INNl46@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> References: <1993Mar17.181728.28455@coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7] In article <1993Mar17.181728.28455@coe.montana.edu> Nate Williams (nate@cs.montana.edu) wrote: > To find out what init does, do a 'man init'. For those of you don't > have running systems, init is NOT required for you to run the patchkit. man: no entry for init in the manual. > > Fixing init allows things to work better when rebooting, shutting down, > fscking the disks, etc..... > I have a version of init written from scratch. It is running on my systems very well, writes its messages via syslog, is written modularly and even has a man page. A (I think) new feature is its configurability: You can configure it at run time via a file (It's fully back-compatible if this file doesn't exist). Things you can configure include default startup state (singleuser/multiuser), which shell to start in singleuser, some timeouts etc. And you can configure the default process limits for all processes on the system, without recompiling the kernel ! I hope I find time next week to finish the last bits and polish it up. > > Nate Christoph -- #define SIGKILL 9 /* kill signatures (cannot be caught or ignored */