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INITSCRIPT

Section: Linux System Administrator's Manual (5)
Updated: July 10, 2003
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NAME

initscript - script that executes inittab commands.

SYNOPSIS

/bin/sh /etc/sysconfig/initscript id runlevels action process

DESCRIPTION

When the shell script /etc/sysconfig/initscript is present, initwill use it to execute the commands from inittab.This script can be used to set things like ulimit andumask default values for every process.

EXAMPLES

This is a sample initscript, which might be installed on yoursystem as /etc/sysconfig/initscript.sample.

## initscript   Executed by init(8) for every program it#              wants to spawn like this:## /bin/sh /etc/sysconfig/initscript <id> <level> <action> <process>#  # Set umask to safe level, and enable core dumps.  umask 022  ulimit -c 2097151  PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin  export PATH  # Increase the hard filedescriptor limit for all processes  # to 8192.  The soft limit is still 1024, but any unpriviliged  # process can increase it's soft limit up to the hardlimit  # with "ulimit -Sn xxx" (needs a 2.2.13 or later Linux kernel).  ulimit -Hn 8192  # Execute the program.  eval exec "$4"

NOTES

This script is not meant as startup script for daemons or somesuch.It has nothing to do with a rc.local style script. It's justa handler for things executed from /etc/inittab. Experimentingwith this can make your system un(re)bootable.

FILES

/etc/inittab,/etc/sysconfig/initscript.

AUTHOR

Miquel van Smoorenburg ,<miquelsAATTcistron.nl>

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