iBook does not sleep after recent yum update...

[Ben Ricker]

A trick to keep recalcitrant daemons running....behold, the power of
inittab! do a 'man inittab'. You want to add an entry for the daemon you
want to be respawned as a line entry. Then, init will not only start it
on boot, but will respawn the daemon if it ever goes down. Within a few
seconds, even!

I use it for all my "mission critical" daemons. Once you get it working,
it works. Be careful, though. I had a problem with a bad library causing
a process to be spawned so quickly it brought the box to its knees.Took
me about 1/2 hour to figure it out. Note which daemons you put in there
is the lesson to be learned.

Ben Ricker

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:08, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
> Scott:
> 
> On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 11:48  AM, Scott Strungis wrote:
> > Console is no problem for me...Knowing that this pmud thing is a 
> > service I went to the Services app but could not find it in the list.
> 
> Me, neither. I found pbbuttonsd in the Services GUI, but not pmud.
> 
> > I know that this is simply an adjustment in an init file, but which 
> > one can I add this service to so that the pmud service is activated at 
> > boot?
> 
> I found that pmud is activated at reboot, but sometimes goes down for 
> unexplained reasons. For instance, my Wallstreet has a CD-ROM slot that 
> can be exchanged for a second battery; if I restart with the battery in 
> the slot instead of the CD-ROM drive, pmud seems to go wacky, and I 
> must restart it. What has been your experience?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint