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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!comrade From: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper) Subject: Re: 386BSD: /etc/rc's exit kills slattach(8) Message-ID: <1992Jul24.052415.7172@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> Keywords: slattach SLIP etc/rc Organization: University of Western Australia References: <1992Jul24.014014.16797@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:24:15 GMT Lines: 26 wkt@rodos1.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) writes: >Quick bug report, and workaround. /etc/rc's exit 0 (i.e what happens after >this) causes an slattach(8) in /etc/netstart to die. It's not getty and it >is after the exit 0, because I renamed getty -> betty and put a sleep 10 >on the line above rc's exit 0. >I tried at least two slattach lines in /etc/netstart: > slattach /dev/com2 9600 > slattach /dev/com2 9600 < /dev/null > /dev/null >Didn't try > nohup slattach /dev/com2 9600 The nohup one definitely works. > Warren Toomey VK1XWT, on the path to insanity > No longer in the bowels of ADFA Comp Science. > `Version 7 Job Control: just use ptrace(2).' -- email: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au snail: Peter Cooper, box 22 fax: +61 9 380 1041 Guild of Undergraduates phone: +61 9 380 3929 University of Western Australia "It was the banana that did it!" - Julia Marley