Re: [leafnode-list] New to leatnode, need a bit of help.

["Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oisin,
  FreeBSD does not have an inittab. It probably has that function
somewhere. (I just dont know where) What do you consider linuxism in the
code. Hopefully one of the BSD users can take a look (that can read
code). In my case it compiled cleanly once I took the linux out of the
unistd.h include. when I ran it as a normal user it didn't complain
about anything other than it needs to run as news or root. Since my
connection is an always on connection this is something that would
improve my news service I provide to my very limited base of users.

TIA

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Oisin Curtin was heard blurting out:

> Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
> > 
> > Ok now that I have it compiled under FreeBSD can anyone tell me how
> > would I go about setting this part up on it.
> > 
> > fn:235:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/freshnews  &>/dev/null
> 
> There are a couple of very specific Linuxisms in the program as it 
> stands.  Did you have any trouble getting around them? 
> 
> I haven't used BSD since about '94, so I can't give you a concise 
> answer. Hang on, I'll switch on "lecture mode" and you can sleep through
> the parts you don't give a smeg about.
> 
> 
> There is a file in the /etc directory called "inittab".  Add that line to
> it.  You must be root to edit the file.  After editing the file, you need 
> to tell init that it has to re-read the file.  This is usually done with 
> `telinit Q`, but on some systems it might be `telinit q` or `init Q`. 
> 
> `init` is a core program in the *nix way of doing things.  It runs 
> deamons and makes sure they keep on running.  The content of this line 
> are:
> 
>  "fn"  -- nothing but a label.  Init uses it internally.
>  "235" -- these are the "runlevels", or system states, in which you want
>           freshnews to be running.  2 and 3 are the normal *nix multi-
>           user and multi-uesr/networked modes.  5 is used in RedHat Linux 
>           for fully graphical operation.  There is a "default" line that 
>           tells you what runlevel you are using.
>  "respawn" -- is an `init` keyword which tells your system that if 
>           freshnews dies for any reason, it should be restarted.   
>  "/usr..." -- the rest of the line is the ordinary shell command to run 
>           the program.
> 
> 
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