inittab fields

env · 03-04-2005, 10:17 AM

HI,

i read the manpages for inittab but i still can´t realy understand what the meaning of the first three fields is. For instance :

2:7:wait:/etc/myprocess

can anyone refer me to some understandable writing or just to explain them?

10x

jailbait · 03-04-2005, 10:48 AM

"can anyone refer me to some understandable writing or just to explain them?"

Here is an explanation of inittab:

http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pser...es/inittab.htm

The contents of inittab vary quite a bit from one distribution to another. What distribution are you using? Post your entire inittab and somebody who runs that distribution can probably explain the fields that you want to understand.

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Steve Stites

env · 03-04-2005, 12:36 PM

Well it's on one Fedora Core 3, although i am interested to understand on the other disctros too.

thanks for the fast answer