Hello SuSE folkz, I have some questions regarding properties of SysV init daemon. It starts on a system boot up by the kernel call to /sbin/init. Then init reads /etc/inittab and starts/stops services in /etc/inint.d After system has booted into default run level (e.g 5) init still continues to run as a daemon. Does it have any other purposes other than idling in the loop with uid 1 and gid 0? Isn't it right that kernel itself takes care about parent processes and its children? Why do we need init running as a daemon after a system is running in default runlevel? I can start and stop any service without init involved. Could somebody please give me a pointer to the source of information regarding all properties of init. Thanks in advance, Alex _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug