On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:54 AM, R P Herrold herrold@owlriver.com wrote:
I don't know WHAT you are looking at, if anything, but it is not a CentOS 6 install; 'upstart' is a non-starter for the future, and certainly not in CentOS' upstream's plans
Yeah, about that. -> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Mig...
4.2 Service Initialization ->
"In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, *init* from the sysvinit package has been replaced with *Upstart*, an event-based init system. This system handles the starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. For more information on Upstart itself, refer to the init(8) man page."
Upstart is very much a non-starter. It's already been replaced in recent fedora versions by systemd. HOWEVER, it's very much in RHEL6 and CentOS6.
While I don't think OP should necessarily be using inittab that way, there are certainly commercial pieces of software (I'm looking at YOU Tivoli Storage Manager!) that want to use inittab for keeping crash-prone things alive. /etc/init is the place for this, however the format is different... So OP is most likely going to need to rewrite things anyway.