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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Can't start xdm from rc
Message-ID: <1992Sep16.173257.21501@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <3863@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 17:32:57 GMT
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In article <3863@wzv.win.tue.nl> guido@wzv.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
>For some reason I can't get xdm started from within rc. It just
>hangs. I dont have a getty running on console or so. When i start xdm
>from the command-line, all works fine. Can anyone tell me
>what I'm doing wrong?
"nohup" it. This is kind of bogus, because it keeps from resetting the
thing with kill -1 ...but then again, unless you apply the init patch and
rebuild init, you in this boat anyway.
The problem is that background processes started in /etc/rc are not made into
children of init; instead, they are children of the shell instance running
/etc/rc. Someone who finds this terribly annoying should fix it 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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