On Sat 07 Apr 01, 10:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Deja User wrote:
>
> > I know this is vague, but a colleague of mine is vexed regarding a
> > "init command is respawning too rapidly" error. Any ideas? If not,
> > that's fine. I've seen this before also, but never found out what
> > would cause this type of error. The question seems to be "too rapidly"
> > for what? UA
>
> Sounds like they put an ampersand at the end of an inittab line. init
> monitors the processes it starts, and the ampersand disonnects from the
> invoked process immediately, and init thinks it needs to start it
> again. Voila! processes spawning like rabbits.
jeff, shouldn't init only do this when it receives a SIGCHLD signal?
pete
