Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site CS-Mordred Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!kcs From: kcs@CS-Mordred (Kevin Smallwood) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Bourne shell scripts being started from /etc/rc Message-ID: <154@CS-Mordred> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 11:31:29 EDT Article-I.D.: CS-Mordr.154 Posted: Fri Oct 5 11:31:29 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 05:37:25 EDT Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 14 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/shfiles 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