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From: dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: starting daemons from /etc/rc
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.090652.1241@yenta.alb.nm.us>
Date: 8 Jun 91 09:06:52 GMT
Organization: yenta unix pc, rio rancho, nm
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This is another "I'm stupid" posting..

I was having trouble getting daemons to start up from /etc/rc.  I would
boot the system and they weren't running, but I could issue the exact
same command and start the daemon myself.

It turned out that the daemon takes a finite amount of time until it
manages to arrange to catch signals, so if the parent (rc script) dies
before that time, bye bye daemon.  Oooops!  I added a "sleep 5" to the
end of /etc/rc, and all of a sudden, it works right.

						little david
-- 
Unix is not your mother.