respawn--about "/etc/inittab"

iclinux · 02-01-2005, 07:56 PM

hi,there

I copy a console program named TEST to the directory "/sbin" , and
append "2:2345:respawn:/sbin/TEST" to the end of the file "/etc/inittab".

I thought init would call TEST automatically when OS reboot, and if TEST exited, init would call it again.

But when I reboot my system, I find TEST isn't called.

What's the matter?

Regards.

btmiller · 02-01-2005, 10:37 PM

That should work, AFAIK. is there anything in your logs about it? If the process continuously quits, init may complain about having to respawn it too quickly. beyond that, I can't really help much.

iclinux · 02-01-2005, 11:38 PM

btmiller

there's no log file

dose it work well on your pc?

iclinux · 02-02-2005, 12:44 AM

it works now. I forgot to make it a daemon...

But there're 10 process in the OS, I don't know why.

what's the detailed mean of "2:2345:respawn:/sbin/TEST" ?

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	if (fork()) return 0;

	int i = 0;
	while (true) {
		if (i++ > 300) break;
	  	sleep(1);
	}
	return 0;
}