
Problem: Sysvinit doesn't kill a process if it is turned :off: or removed from
         inittab. It just doesn't respawn it.

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 01:21:07 +0300 (MSK)
From: Eugene Crosser <crosser@average.org>
Subject: Re: sysvinit bug (?)
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>

> You (Eugene Crosser) wrote:
> > OK, now I understand the reason.  Though, personally I think that I
> > really want the "standard" behavior.  That is, when I "disable" getty at
> > 9 in the morning, I want a guarantee that the modem will not pick up the
> > phone, because I want it for voice calls.  And if there is an online
> > session opened, I want it to be killed.
> 
> Why not use different runlevels for that.

You cannot.  You need to preserve the state across occational reboots.
(of course you can keep the state in a file and check it in some rc script
but it seems unnecessary complication).

Eugene

