dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) (06/08/91)
This is another "I'm stupid" posting.. I was having trouble getting daemons to start up from /etc/rc. I would boot the system and they weren't running, but I could issue the exact same command and start the daemon myself. It turned out that the daemon takes a finite amount of time until it manages to arrange to catch signals, so if the parent (rc script) dies before that time, bye bye daemon. Oooops! I added a "sleep 5" to the end of /etc/rc, and all of a sudden, it works right. little david -- Unix is not your mother.