loc@tmsoft.UUCP (Leigh Clayton) (08/30/90)
I have a 386/ix system, V2.0.2. I have an application that runs under VPIX that I really want to run as a daemon. Most particularly, I do **not** want the buggy, risky screen logic to run when it starts up (the stuff VPIX does to the screen has a nasty habit of crashing or hanging Unix if I happen to be messing with other logical screens at the time). What I want is to un my (debugged) code with output going to /dev/null (well, I'd prefer a real stdout file, but I'm willing to do without that). My local 'support' for 386/ix tells me this can't be done; VPIX can't run as a daemon. Is this true :-(? If so, is there some way to get my application to grab one of the logical screens (**not** screen 8) and start up automatically at boot time? Reading the so called VPIX 'documentation' led me to suspect that there might be, but didn't suggest anything very helpful as to how I might try to accomplish this. ----------------------------------------------------------- loc@tmsoft.UUCP (Leigh Clayton) uunet!mnetor!tmsoft!loc