On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:28:10PM -0500, David Talkington wrote:
> I discovered something bizarre when I installed daemontools on Red Hat
> 7.1 ... init didn't like the length of the process field for the
> entry. (Watch the console during boot or init changes to see this). I
>From init.c, in read_inittab(), there is
if (process && strlen(process) > 127)
strcpy(err, "process field too long");
This is of course undocumented---but at least there is no silent
truncation.
The process field Dan recommends has 132 characters in it...
But the "console" stuff is not needed under Linux; just put
SV:123456:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service
in inittab.
Mate
