From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] tail -f /var/log/messages in inittab
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:55:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o31253x.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E0CA8F9.7080706@lucaceresoli.net> (Luca Ceresoli's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:48:57 +0200")
>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> writes:
Luca> Hi,
Luca> I've been staring at the following line in fs/skeleton/etc/inittab:
>> tty3::respawn:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages
Luca> and wondered if it's useful to anybody.
Luca> I guess in many embedded systems it is a useless waste of resources.
Luca> At least it is on mine, so I wiped it in my port.
Sorry, I missed your mail, but it was pointed out to me on IRC as well,
so I removed it.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-30 16:48 [Buildroot] tail -f /var/log/messages in inittab Luca Ceresoli
2011-06-30 18:03 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-07-04 19:55 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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