On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Osborne, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > My co-worker the AIX admin says change the word ‘respawn’ to ‘off’ in > inittab. This will prevent the system from recreating the devices when the > machine reboots & runs hardware detection.
I don't think that's it. On every other *nix system I've ever used or heard of, "respawn" in inittab means init will re-start the process if the process exits. (As opposed to just starting it once and then forgetting about it.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
