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From: "Dan Skinner" <Jdanskinner@jdanskinner.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Command line switches
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:19:15 -0600
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"Frank da Cruz" <fdc@columbia.edu> wrote in message
news:slrnbtburh.2o1.fdc@sesame.cc.columbia.edu...
> In article <dogbtvo8mdk4hsenjjadeim47uajhc5dab@4ax.com>,
> Chris@bundy.co.uk wrote:
> : On 8 Dec 2003 23:37:36 GMT, Frank da Cruz
> :
> : If I run the script stand alone it works great,
> : thank you. Its when I try to run it at boot that I
> : have problems.
> :
> Well you tricked me, you didn't say you wanted to run
> it without a controlling terminal.
>
> : I put the file I had created in phone.sh that I
> : had created in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> :
> : server01# more /usr/local/etc/rc.d/phone.sh
> : #!/bin/sh
> : /var/log/fred
> : exit
> : server01#
> :
> I don't understand this. What is /var/log/fred?
> The name of the Kermit script?
>
> : the script never concludes therefore the remaining
> : initialisation scripts never start.
> :
> Because it still has a CONNECT command in it, which
> requires a controlling terminal? In that case,
> replace the CONNECT command with the INPUT sequence
> that I recommended yesterday.
>
> - Frank
Sounds to me like you want to run this process as a deamon?
If so you will want to fork it off when you launch it during startup.
That way the rest of startup can continue.
Regards...Dan.