Hello,
I had an interesting question posed to me and I was wondering if anyone
out there knows for sure.
On each machine there is an "/sbin/init -a" process running, but the man
page doesn't show a "-a" option. I assume this is because it's run from the
kernel as the original init process, so the "-a" isn't an available option
for the common user. But rather than tell him what I think, I'd prefer to
give him a correct answer base on knowledge. So does anybody KNOW what the
"-a" option for the init process is for? Or as the question was posed to me,
"I looked in the man pages on OSF and "init" is the process doing the
startup scripts as expected. Curiously I see no mention of a "-a" option in
the man pages, could someone explain why that is there to me and what it
does?"
James Fitzmaurice
D0 Online Systems Manager
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
(630) 840-4011
jpfitz_at_fnal.gov
UNIX is very user friendly, It's just very particular about who it makes
friends with.
Received on Tue Jul 30 2002 - 15:10:33 NZST