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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /etc/rc.2 and background processes
Message-ID: <1268@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 20:30:40 GMT
References: <890@creare.UUCP>
Organization: National University, San Diego
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in article <890@creare.UUCP>, gda@creare.UUCP (Gray Abbott) says:
> 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?

Everything from /etc/rc().d is run under a single shell.  when you
release execution back to the master shell it is getting "death of a
parent"ed to death.  You will either have to protect the shell against
signals, or run it some different way.

How 'bout adding the script to /etc/inittab at the bottom with the code
"once".  It dosn't really have to be at the end, but this way the gettys
are running before the process starts.

Rob.