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From: picano@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Silvio Picano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.sys.att
Subject: Problem with putting a process in the 'background'
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.144608.27462@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 14:46:08 GMT
Sender: picano@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Silvio Picano)
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How do I make a process run in the 'background' on a 
3b1?  

I have written a daemon to be run ('similar' to lpsched)
that I want placed in the background upon shutdown/reboot.

I thought that if I placed the executable in /etc/daemons, 
the rc file would start it for me (at least the comments 
and code in rc say so).  Wrong: upon reboot, everything 
in /etc/daemons was 'zapped' away??

Ok, so I placed my executable in /etc and called it from
rc directly.  Wrong: the reboot procedure failed (it never
returned: a blank screen resulted with "Working" in the corner 
'forever') and I needed to reload ALL the software (argh).

System: I have V3.0 with Dev. Software

I assume my daemon (simple C Code compiled with cc only)
does not need to 'anything extra' as far as being a 
background process??  My process works fine when I simply
run it directly.

What is the 'correct' way to do this?

Thanks in Advance
Silvio