On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:56:19 +0100
Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@???> wrote:

> mett <mett@???> writes:
>

> > It seems init is not parsing /etc/inittab while starting up
> > (init q seems wihtout effect as well).
>
> This seems very unlikely. In order to check for this, you could attach
> an strace to init with

Not at all unlikely if he's initting with something other than
sysvinit. The thing called /sbin/init could be the pid1 for runit, s6,
sysvinit, epoch, or who knows what else.

SteveT

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