Regards Bill Maidment Maidment Enterprises Pty Ltd -----Original message----- *From:* Todd And Margo Chester <[email protected]> *Sent:* Sunday 19th August 2012 12:25 *To:* Scientific Linux Users <[email protected]> *Subject:* inittab questionHi All, Why does this work: #/usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 but, placing this in my /etc/inittab does not? m0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1 I have run "init q" several times to no avail. Can anyone see a typo I am missing? # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep <nothing> After invoking from the command line, I get # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep 9827 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 What am I missing? Many thanks, -T
On 08/18/2012 10:33 PM, Bill Maidment wrote:> You need to put it in /etc/init/ nowadays. Read the notes at the top of
> /etc/inittab > > > Thank you. I missed that. Now to figure out how to use /etc/init. -T
