nifty inittab tricks (was Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] tidbit on logwatching..)

[Darth BoBo <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

There was an article on running sshd this way as well which I've been 
using on some of my machines for quite awhile now, and it works pretty 
well for running a "special" sshd, for example, between two cluster 
nodes so root can "ssh other" and run quick commands on the standby node.

I can't imagine that it would be that difficult to expand this to other 
usefull programs as well, but I have seen errors where init is trying to 
restart the daemon too quickly, so it throttles itself.

Rick

Michael wrote:

>>Using syslog.conf is what I have done as well. The only difference here
>>is what program does the log posting. Tail really only reposts what
>>syslog had already written down; so having syslog do it in the first
>>place may make more sense to some folks.
>>
>>A more interesting question is: how do I make an *interactive* program
>>(such as top -s) run in the console of my choice?
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>I think top should run from inittab too. I think I've done that before
>(though not currently set that way) and it worked okay. At one point I was
>quite taken with trying a lot of different console programs (like Lynx)
>that way. It shouldn't matter if the program is interactive or not.
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