[CentOS] Migrating CentOS 5 -> 6: where to put /etc/inittab respawn scripts?

Wed Oct 5 05:54:11 UTC 2011
R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>

On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Johnny Tan wrote:

> Like recent Ubuntus, C6 uses upstart in place of traditional Sys V init.
>
> Likely, you will want this in /etc/init/ -- note!, not the same as
> /etc/init.d/

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

[root at centos6-32 ~]# rpm -qa sys\*
sysvinit-tools-2.87-3.dsf.el6.i686
system-config-firewall-base-1.2.27-3.el6_0.2.noarch
[root at centos6-32 ~]# cd /etc/init.d/
[root at centos6-32 init.d]# ls
atd       crond      iptables    netfs        rsyslog    single     udev-post
auditd    functions  killall     network      sandbox    snmpd
cgconfig  halt       named       rdisc        saslauthd  snmptrapd
cgred     ip6tables  netconsole  restorecond  sendmail   sshd
[root at centos6-32 init.d]# ls -al ../rc*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  2617 Jun 25 00:07 ../rc
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   220 Jun 25 00:07 ../rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 19088 Jun 25 00:07 ../rc.sysinit

../rc0.d:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root 4096 Oct  3 12:27 .
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 4096 Aug 18 07:03 ..
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   13 Oct  3 12:02 K05atd -> ../init.d/atd
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   19 Oct  3 12:02 K10saslauthd -> ../init.d/saslauthd
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   14 Oct  3 12:02 K25sshd -> ../init.d/sshd
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   18 Oct  3 12:02 K30sendmail -> ../init.d/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   20 Oct  3 12:02 K50netconsole -> ../init.d/netconsole
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   15 Oct  3 12:02 K50snmpd -> ../init.d/snmpd
  ...

-- Russ herrold