On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 08:47:50AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > You're actually thinking of inittab here [...] I know, I know. I've been around this for longer than I care. I saw HP-UX's transition from one to another (9 -> 10). I've had GNU/Linux distros spawning PostgreSQL off inittab (bad idea to put respawn there without a sleep...) Inittab was the original way of doing things for AT&T, BSD copied that, and SysV grafted /etc/init.d onto it. Slowly other unices followed (alas!). I think inittab's ailments could have been cured differently, but history is like that. Cheers -- t
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