Linux Startup

[tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx]

I have a program I want started at system startup time, and also monitored so if it dies it will be restarted.
I see two options but problems with both:


1) Put it into /etc/inittab

     This would work, EXCEPT I need to do some stuff first.  I need to do a cd, and add some stuff to the
      PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  And I can't do (as far as I can tell, as I tried):

        x:respawn:cd /root/inittab; LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$PWD";./Vms

      I think you have to run from root



2) Put into /etc/rc*.d

     Then I could do all the path setup, etc, but how do I get it to respawn if it somehow dies?