picano@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Silvio Picano) (03/20/91)
How do I make a process run in the 'background' on a
3b1?
I have written a daemon to be run ('similar' to lpsched)
that I want placed in the background upon shutdown/reboot.
I thought that if I placed the executable in /etc/daemons,
the rc file would start it for me (at least the comments
and code in rc say so). Wrong: upon reboot, everything
in /etc/daemons was 'zapped' away??
Ok, so I placed my executable in /etc and called it from
rc directly. Wrong: the reboot procedure failed (it never
returned: a blank screen resulted with "Working" in the corner
'forever') and I needed to reload ALL the software (argh).
System: I have V3.0 with Dev. Software
I assume my daemon (simple C Code compiled with cc only)
does not need to 'anything extra' as far as being a
background process?? My process works fine when I simply
run it directly.
What is the 'correct' way to do this?
Thanks in Advance
Silviopicano@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Silvio Picano) (03/21/91)
In article <1991Mar20.144608.27462@en.ecn.purdue.edu> picano@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Silvio Picano) writes: > >How do I make a process run in the 'background' on a >3b1? > stuff deleted of course, perform a fork(), and kill the parent process!! How much easier can it be? (maybe if I had the csh :-) Silvio