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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4j4jrd$5tu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4imj94$shc@daily-planet.execpc.com> <315032AC.15FB7483@freebsd.org> <DoL1t7.G5t@twwells.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)