[lug] The init process

[Kenneth D Weinert]

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Ken Weinert wrote:
> I'm having an issue at work that I'm trying to solve.

I was in the office today and got the problem solved.

Turns out that a required step is to verify that an anti-virus program
is running.

Hard to do on Linux, of course, so the admin at the company looked for a
program that would always be running and came up with init.

I'm not sure what OS she tested on, but evidently it had the full path
(/sbin/init) and that's why it worked on Ubuntu.  When I noticed what
the problem was and talked with her, she just added a second rule to the
check to look for the plain init in the ps output and all is fine now.

(BTW: this is CentOS 5.3. The official RHEL5 that's running on the
company servers behaves the same way.)

So, as long as she fixed the problem once I told her what it was, I'm happy.

Thanks for your input - it's much appreciated.
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