[Buildroot] tail -f /var/log/messages in inittab

Luca Ceresoli luca at lucaceresoli.net
Thu Jun 30 16:48:57 UTC 2011


Hi,

I've been staring at the following line in fs/skeleton/etc/inittab:

 > tty3::respawn:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages

and wondered if it's useful to anybody.
I guess in many embedded systems it is a useless waste of resources.
At least it is on mine, so I wiped it in my port.

Out of curiosity, does anybody really use it?
Or should I send a patch that removes it?

Luca


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