Init

Tags

comp-arch

Is a special computer process that spawns several housekeeping processes.

This process performs the following steps in order:

1. Check and make sure disks are OK.
2. Start several essential daemons such as a print spooler or web server.
3. Prepare for users:
   • Start a copy of the getty program to initialise a virtual console that can watch the screen and keyboard.
   • init may actually spawn several such terminals, each able to connect to a different keyboard+monitor, but you'll rarely see more than one at once.
4. Start non-essential user configured daemons such as a networking module, display manager or X-server.