editing /etc/inittab

Lenny Tropiano lenny at icus.islp.ny.us
Sun Jun 18 08:16:27 AEST 1989


In article <724 at flatline.UUCP> erict at flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
|>
|>From lenny's README that he packaged with his fsck/rc neato package.
|>>(yes, you can edit /etc/inittab carefully).
|>
|>What's the problem with editing /etc/inittab?  I've done this on
|>a variety of UNIX systems for hte past couple of years.  Usually
|>it's when I'm setting up terminals or logins...
|>
...
It was a joke! :-) ...   I simply meant be careful when modifying that
file, leaving off blanks in the beginning can really confuse the UNIX pc
/etc/init process.

-Lenny
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