[BusyBox] A quick questions about /sbin/init

Steven Scholz steven.scholz at imc-berlin.de
Tue Jan 21 02:03:03 UTC 2003


Michael Sternberg wrote:
> 
> 1. What the difference between 'sysinit' and 'wait' in inittab file ?
>    Both actions are waited for..
> 
> 2. As quoted from man "actions are run in the order they appear". Is
>    it true also for 'once' actions ? That they are at least started in
>    order defined in inittab ?
> 
> 3. What are purpose of 'restart' ? How can I "restart init process" ?
> 
> 4. What means 'ctrlaltdel' in box that has it console in serial port ?

I have to reboot my board via software from time to time. So I send SIGUSR1 to
init process. In order to actually reboot I had to set 
::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
in my /etc/inittab.

Good luck,

Steven



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