> Actually, DB2's use of /etc/inittab is for a good reason: it > wants to respawn a process if it ever dies, and init will do > that properly. The inittab really needs a form of "directory > include" capability so that packages can drop snippets of > inittab instructions into separate files.
Modulo the auto-restart function, that's pretty much /etc/init.d in a nutshell..8-) > But I don't think anyone wants to change how init works. Yep. > > The alternative, of course, is for DB2 to come with its own > little respawner process to make sure that its db2fmcd daemon > stays around. > Actually, they have a real problem with that daemon going > haywire sometimes on some systems (AIX here), so I wish they > would make a respawner that killed it off and restarted it > too every now and then. That would at least hide whatever > bug is in that daemon. Nothing like fixing broken software by using infrastructure. 8-( -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
