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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /etc/inittab equiv?
Date: 24 Mar 1996 22:54:37 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:

> : > Where can a daemon be respawned from?  I don't see a inittab file.
> :
> : /etc/ttys is the BSD equivalent.
> 
> Yeah, but doesn't each line have to have an associated terminal?

Yup.  True BSD daemons daemonize themselves, so they can be started
out of /etc/rc*.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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