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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!charnel!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!ucthpx!casper.cs.uct.ac.za!gimli!root From: root@gimli.cs.uct.ac.za (Sandi Donno) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] slattach in rc.local Message-ID: <sandi.723285721@gimli> Date: 2 Dec 92 08:42:01 GMT References: <1992Nov30.080340.5412@ericsson.se> <1992Nov30.231018.28698@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> Sender: news@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (news) Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town Lines: 21 In <1992Nov30.231018.28698@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> wkt@rodos1.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) writes: >In article <1992Nov30.080340.5412@ericsson.se>, eratho@eras165.ericsson.se (Thomas W Nilsson) writes: >|> Hi, >|> >|> why doesn't slattach run correct from rc.local?? >Start it with nohup i.e nohup slattach blah blah. It seems that slattach >doesn't dissocitate itself from the controlling terminal, and hence dies >when rc finally exits. I have a similar problem with nnmaster, which also dies when run from rc but works fine when run by root from the prompt. I tried using nohup some time back when I discovered that nnmaster was saying "terminated: hangup" in the log file, but it made no difference whatsoever. -- Sandi Donno CS Dept University of Cape Town South Africa sandi@cs.uct.ac.za