From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:55:14 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] tail -f /var/log/messages in inittab In-Reply-To: <4E0CA8F9.7080706@lucaceresoli.net> (Luca Ceresoli's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:48:57 +0200") References: <4E0CA8F9.7080706@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <874o31253x.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli 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