I have nocatsplash running on WRT54G v4 RC3, but the nocat daemon splashd dies often, as I understand is a common occurence with nocat.

But the recommended solution of putting a line in inittab to get nocat to respawn ofter dying just isnt working for me.  Here is the line:
NC:23:respawn:start-stop-daemon -S -c nocat --exec /usr/sbin/splashd -D

Trying to puzzle this out, it appears that the start-stop-daemon is missing from busybox.  What now?

Is there a workaround?  Is there another way to have nocat restart after dying?  I'm a rank newbie with linux, which doesn't help.  Hope someone here can help.