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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>
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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