Subject: Re: Starting jobs from init
To: Paul Newhouse <newhouse@rockhead.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/29/2002 21:56:09
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:19:03AM -0800, Paul Newhouse wrote:
> Platform i386
> 
> In the ssh mailing list someone suggested using init (/etc/inittab) to 
> start up sshd.  Unless my man pages are completely out of date (entirely 
> possible) this is an SVR<n>'ism ... isn't it?
> 
> Does the NetBSD init (or some other mechanism in NetBSD) have a way of 
> spawning and restarting jobs other than for tty's?  (Other than using the 
> rc stuff to spawn a script, which is what I do now.)

No, not this way. /etc/rc* is the proper way to start daemons on NetBSD.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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