initscript - script that executes inittab commands.
SYNOPSIS
/bin/sh /etc/initscript id runlevels action process
DESCRIPTION
When the shell script /etc/initscript is present, init
will use it to execute the commands from inittab.
This script can be used to set things like ulimit and
umask default values for every process.
EXAMPLES
This is a sample initscript, which might be installed on your
system as /etc/initscript.sample.
#
# initscript Executed by init(8) for every program it
# wants to spawn like this:
#
# /bin/sh /etc/initscript <id> <level> <action> <process>
#
# Set umask to safe level, and enable core dumps.
umask 022
ulimit -c 2097151
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
# Increase the hard filedescriptor limit for all processes
# to 8192. The soft limit is still 1024, but any unpriviliged
# process can increase it's soft limit up to the hardlimit
# with "ulimit -Sn xxx" (needs a 2.2.13 or later Linux kernel).
ulimit -Hn 8192
# Execute the program.
eval exec "$4"
NOTES
This script is not meant as startup script for daemons or somesuch.
It has nothing to do with a rc.local style script. It's just
a handler for things executed from /etc/inittab. Experimenting
with this can make your system un(re)bootable.
