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Another problem -- athena init script doesnt protect itself

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Oct 6 19:45:50 1998

To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 06 Oct 1998 19:45:33 -0400

If you are in runlevel 3, and then do 'telinit 5', the athena
script will re-run itself.  This is bad (or at least wrong).  If
Athena is already running, it shouldn't do anything else.

-derek

PS: AFS has this problem, too.  I'll fix that.
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