[ale] inittab respawn

[kevinostoll at yahoo.com (Kevin O'Neill Stoll)]

I was checking out (http://www.netadmintools.com/html/inittab.man.html) the inittab manpage looking for this answer but wanted some real world experience input.



Let's assume I have an entry in inittab:

4:2345:respawn:/bin/does_not_exist





and the script/executable "/bin/does_not_exist" doesn't exist on this file system. Does the respawn 

command just blindly attempt to execute that command regardless of the command not existing?



I suspect this would just cause an infinite loop?



thanks









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