This is what I did and it's working fine but curious to learn if I can do this in a different ways?
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
DATE=`/usr/bin/date '+%m%d%y'`
cp -p /etc/inittab /etc/inittab_$DATE
cat "hobbit:234:once:/etc/rc.hobbit start" >> /etc/inittab
Thanks.
