On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 09:17, James Pifer wrote: > I have a Redhat 9 system that I have totally screwed up inittab and > runlevel to where it will not boot correctly now. I was trying to change > it from default initlevel 5 to 3. Not sure if I didn't give it enough > time or what, but now it's hosed. > > When it boots I get: > INIT: /etc/inittab[8]: missing action field > (same line repeats with 19,22,30,33,39,42,43, and 51) > Cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit According to a diff of your inittab against mine, the only change you've made is this: id:1:initdefault: This forces init to boot single-user. I've never tried this, so I'm not sure whether to be surprised or not by the error you're seeing. Change that line to the following and everything should be ok. If not, you've hosed something else. id:3:initdefault: -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
