Re: [Jailkit-users] chrootlaunch from inittab

[Olivier Sessink]

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to jail a perl daemon that is launched (and automatically
> respawned if it dies) from /etc/inittab on a CentOS 5.2 server.
> 
> The /etc/inittab entry looks something like this:
> 
> N1:345:respawn:jk_chrootlaunch -u foo -g foo -j /var/foojail -x
> /usr/local/bin/foo -- -c /usr/local/etc/foo.conf
> 
> Where /usr/local/bin/foo is a perl script which reads in
> /usr/local/etc/foo.conf.
> 
> 
> 
> I believe I have initialized the jail correctly because I can run the
> jailed daemon from
> the command line as root
> 
> address@hidden ~ ]# jk_chrootlaunch -u foo -g foo -j /var/foojail -x
> /usr/local/bin/foo -- -c /usr/local/etc/foo.conf
> 
> and the daemon runs as expected.

I guess it runs in the background, right?

processes that run from inittab must not detach and run in the background.

regards,
        Olivier