[comp.unix.wizards] Multiple /etc/init's

markb@anchor.colorado.edu (Mark G. Brown) (03/27/90)

What would be a possible reason for a 2nd (and 3rd and 4th ...)
"/etc/init -" process being spawned? As soon as I've killed all
but the original, a 2nd is started immediately.

(This is on a Sun3/180 running SunOS3.5.)

Mark G. Brown, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 (303)-492-3972
markb@boulder.colorado.edu  -or-  !ncar!boulder!markb

Mark G. Brown, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 (303)-492-3972
markb@boulder.colorado.edu  -or-  !ncar!boulder!markb

nesman@inmet.inmet.com (03/29/90)

We also have many init process running on a SunOS 3.4 system.  At the same 
time we have noticed that there no getty's running on the ALM ports.  Our
conclusion (since the tty's do function) is that these init's are waiting
for the tty's to look "alive".  We have a port selector between the terminals
and the ALM which may prevent this until a terminal is actully connected.
Once the terminal is connected apparently the init exec's getty which exec's
login which is the way init should work.

Stephen Nesman					nesman@inmet.inmet.com
Intermetrics Inc.
Cambridge MA 02138