Don't ever edit inittab directly
AIX has some nice commands to do this (mkitab chitab lsitab)

If you are asking how to I restart dsmc sched or dsmserv,  I use this in ksh

chitab "$(lsitab label | sed s/once/respawn/)"
where label is the inittab label of the item to restart
wait a minute for the command to start and then change it back with
chitab "$(lsitab label | sed s/respawn/once/)"

Steve Harris
AIX and ADSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia


>>> "Gill, Geoffrey L." <GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM> 01/05/2001 7:27:20 >>>
For all you AIX guru's out there,

I haven't been able to find an answer to this in any of the books I have so
I need to ask. I've been told that on other UNIX systems there is a way to
"refresh" what's in inittab to the system. In AIX is there a way to have the
inittab re-run to pick up any changes or processes that may have been
stopped without restarting the computer?

Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
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