[BusyBox] init in busybox 60.4

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Thu Oct 17 03:09:03 UTC 2002


Alfred,
 
> I'm fighting against a different init behaviour in Version 60.4 compared
> with older versions up to 60.3.
> I'm unsure if there is a bug or I'm to stupid.
> 
> In detail: I use busybox in a dedicated sattelite receiver&recording box
> (vdr). Busybox-init starts three virtual consoles after sysinit. The
> first is a shell script which loads some drivers and start the
> application. In case of a application crash the script unloads the
> driver and get respawned.
> The second one is a emergency console (nomaly not used)
> The third one is a tricky construction to use telnetd without a
> superdaemon. This gives me *one* telnet console.
> As you can see I use devfs.
> 
> Since I use 60.4 the respawning doesn't work anymore. The vc's are only
> started once. If I leave my telnet session with exit, no restart
> follows. Same thing with the first script, it is executed _only one time_.
> 
> If I replace the init.c from v60.4 by init.c from 60.3 I get the old
> behaviour.
> Is there a bug or do I missusing your system  :-)

You use the current CVS version 0.64 or official exiting 0.64 version?


--w
vodz



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