kcs@CS-Mordred (Kevin Smallwood) (10/05/84)
Does anyone know of problems in starting a Bourne shell script "daemon" from /etc/rc (or /etc/rc.local)? We use a Bourne shell script to listen to the status port of a Micom Port Selector and change location information that finger uses (since terminal X may be connected to port Y one time and port Z the next time). When we start this up in /etc/rc.local, we get a bunch of /tmp/sh<PID> files of zero length. We are not using "<<", but we do use pipes (technically, two programs are used to do two different things with the status port information; we probably should combine this into one program). This seems to work if we give it a control terminal (ie., < /dev/console). Any thoughts that I am probably overlooking? Thanks. Kevin Smallwood {ucbvax | decvax | inhp4}!purdue!kcs kcs@Purdue