Re: an inittab question

["Martin Guy" <martinwguy@yahoo.it>]

> > si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS

> I've looked at several docs describing init scripts but I haven't found any that tells me whan to use inittab vs rc scripts.

Inittab entries for a certain runlevel are launched in parallel, while
rc scripts are run in sequence, which is why you generally have one si
entry calling a script.
so you probably want one entry in inittab for system initialisation
that calls rcS
doing what you want to do in order

> I would uses the following inittab (I'm using busybox):
>
> ::sysinit:/bin/my_UI_program
> ::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
> ttyAM0::askfirst:-/bin/sh
> ::restart:/bin/init
> ::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
> ::shutdown:/bin/umount -a -r
> ::shutdown:/sbin/swapoff -a

That's just bizzarre, unless busybox init is so divergent from Unix as
to have turned into a scripting language.

  M