On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Alexander Farber <alexander.farber at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > sorry, for 1 more question on CentOS 5 -> CentOS 6 migration. > > On my old CentOS 5.7 machine I have the following line: > > pref:3:respawn:/bin/su -c '/usr/local/pref/pref.pl >/tmp/pref-`date > +%a`.txt 2>&1' afarber > > and this has served me well, I don't want to install > anything else like daemontools etc. - to keep my web-server > easily reinstallable (or movable to another hoster). > > But now I have migrated to CentOS 6.0, added that line > and the "init q", but nothing happens - as indeed promised > by the comments in the new /etc/inittab. > > Where should I move my line, which docs to read? > > The pref.pl is a poll()ing TCP-sockets daemon for a game > > Thank you > Alex This sounds like something you should be using the 'service' framework for, instead of inittab. In CentOS 5 you would create a script in /etc/init.d and start the service from there. I'm not yet familiar with CentOS 6, but I would bet looking for docs on how to do that will lead you in the right direction. -☙ Brian Mathis ❧-