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[Adam Myrow]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:39:21PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > Then, just replace the "respawn" with "once."
> Didn't know that was allowed, I'll give it a try.
>

Type "man 5 inittab" and you'll read this:

Valid actions for the action field are:

       respawn The process will be restarted whenever it terminates (e.g.
getty).

       wait The process will be started once when the specified runlevel
       is entered and init will wait for its termination.

       once The process will be executed once when the specified runlevel
       is entered.

       boot The process will be executed during system boot.
              The runlevels field is ignored.

       bootwait
              The process will be executed during system boot, while init
waits for its termination (e.g.
              /etc/rc).  The runlevels field is ignored.

       off This does nothing.

       ondemand
              A process marked with an ondemand runlevel will be executed
              whenever the specified ondemand runlevel is called.
              However, no runlevel change will occur (ondemand runlevels
              are `a', `b', and `c').

       initdefault
              An initdefault entry specifies the runlevel which should be
              entered after system boot.  If none exists, init will ask
              for a runlevel on the console. The process field is ignored.

Hope this helps.