Processes Running from inittab

Abstract

In several chapters of this book,¹ I discuss system monitors and some methods of running them on your machine at all times. By automatically starting a process at the system level you can accomplish this task in multiple ways without user interaction. There is cron, the system scheduler, as well as at, another scheduling utility. You also can start a process with an rc (run control) startup script, traditionally located in the /etc/rc directory, which is processed automatically at boot time.

Log-file monitoring is covered in Chapter 7, process monitoring in Chapter 31, file-count monitoring in Chapter 32, and network monitoring in Chapter 42.