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From: Friedrich@cup.portal.com (Frank G Kienast)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /etc/rc.2 and background processes
Message-ID: <12504@cup.portal.com>
Date: 11 Dec 88 23:10:57 GMT
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>I think this happens because init is sending a SIGKILL to the
>background process when /etc/rc2 exits, or something like that.  The
>inittab has /etc/rc2 running at level 2, but also with the "action"
>specified as "wait".  If I have the first script run the second in the
>foreground, everything works, but I have to wait for the whole backup
>to complete before I can login.

>Anyway, I'd like to know what's going on, and also how to make it do
>what I want.  Why does the background process die?  How can I prevent
>this?

I had a similar problem on a 3B15.  All I had to to to cure it was to
start the second process nohup.  You might also want to trap both SIGHUP
and SIGKILL.  Look at other scripts in /etc/rc2 for examples how to do
this.

Friedrich@cup.portal.com
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