[Ma-linux] Re: [Novalug] Another service running, need advice

[Jay Hart]

Don,

Kevin is being funny, but I did read his email twice, just to make sure I
wasn't seeing something else.

Jay

> Kevin,
>   Are you trying to be FUNNY?
>   Or do you really just don't know?
>
> The following is from "man init"
> DESCRIPTION
>    Init
>      Init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create
>      processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab (see  init‐
>      tab(5)). This file usually has entries which cause init to spawn
>      gettys on each line that users can log in. It also controls
>      autonomous processes required by any particular system.
>
> Normally on Linux systems, if '/sbin/init' (with a process ID of 1) ever
> dies the system will REBOOT or HALT (depending on the kernel
> version/configuration), unless things are to far gone.
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> -- DonJr
>
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 21:28 -0500, Kevin Dwyer wrote:
>> There's a pretty boring process called init that runs all the time,
>> well after the computer has finished initializing itself, thus wasting
>> precious bytes of resources.  It doesn't come with a script in init.d,
>> but you can just go ahead and kill it.  You'll have to kill it as
>> root, but it should go without a fight.
>>
>> -kpd
>>
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