CentOS - Nov 2009 - Removing respawning process from inittab w/o killing it

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Hi list,

I need to remove an entry of inittab which is used to (re)spawn a process:

mydemon:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/mydemon >/dev/null 2>&1

So, I would comment out that entry and reload init running ``telinit
q''. IIRC, this would lead to the currently running daemon being killed.
I don't want to /try/ whether I'm right, as those are production
systems.

Is there any possibility (given that ``telinit q'' kills the running
process) to 'keep the process alive' _and_ reload init?

Thanks,

Timo

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On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:56 +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote:
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> Hi list,
> 
> I need to remove an entry of inittab which is used to (re)spawn a process:
> 
> mydemon:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/mydemon >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> So, I would comment out that entry and reload init running ``telinit
> q''. IIRC, this would lead to the currently running daemon being
killed.
> I don't want to /try/ whether I'm right, as those are production
systems.
> 
> Is there any possibility (given that ``telinit q'' kills the
running
> process) to 'keep the process alive' _and_ reload init?
If I understand what "man telinit" intends, it looks like the
"-u" or
"-U" might do what you want.

Test it on some local desktop system since you can't test on your
production?

-- 
Bill