Re: What is ~~ into inittab?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:33:48 +0000
Oscar Corte <oect_1964@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi all:
> 
> I've been reading about the boot process and the inittab file. So far I understand about the fields separated by “:”, etc.
> 
> At some point my inittab file contains :
> 
> # What to do in single-user mode.
> ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
> 
> Could somebody give me a hint about what does the “~~” means at the 'id' field?
> 
> All I know is that this sign (~) is a reference to the user's home directory
> 
> Thanks in advance for any answers

>From 'man inittab':

 An entry in the inittab file has the following format:

              id:runlevels:action:process

       Lines beginning with ‘#’ are ignored.

       id     is a unique sequence of 1-4 characters which identifies an entry in inittab (for  versions  of
              sysvinit compiled with the old libc5 (< 5.2.18) or a.out libraries the limit is 2 characters).

So it seems that the particular value of the field is unimportant, and
~~ doesn't necessarily mean anything special. Caveat:  I'm no expert on
this stuff, and I may be completely wrong.

> Oscar

Celejar
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