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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!hookup!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!mojo.eng.umd.edu!state.eng.umd.edu!chuckr From: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Charles B. Robey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: What happened to /etc/inittab? Date: 12 Jan 1995 23:24:23 GMT Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3f4dn7$2og@mojo.eng.umd.edu> References: <clintdw-0401950111260001@d61.net.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: state.eng.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Clinton Wong (clintdw@interaccess.com) wrote: : I'm trying to set up a terminal on FreeBSD 2.0 and the first thing I : noticed is that /etc/inittab no longer exists. What file replaces : the functionality of /etc/inittab?... (I'm looking for the part : that runs getty with respawn) This drove me nuts when I was new to BSD, and thought (of course) I knew it all. This is one of those points that BSD differs strongly from SYSV. In a BSD system, the init process reads the /etc/ttys file, and keeps the logins going. There is no direct relation on BSD to the SYSV inittab system, and the SYSV run levels don't exist on BSD, either. For startup stuff, look at /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local, and spend some time with the init man page. It's worth it. : Thanks in advance! : Clint -- ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------