I have repeated the crontab entry using bash instead of irssi. It is clear there is some difference in the behaviour of irssi:
~$ crontab -l | grep dtach @reboot /home/bb/bin/dtach -n /home/bb/.dtach/irssi /usr/bin/irssi 2>&1 > ~/.dtach/irssi.cron < /dev/null @reboot /home/bb/bin/dtach -n /home/bb/.dtach/bash /bin/bash 2>&1 > ~/.dtach/bash.cron < /dev/null ~$ ls -l ~/.dtach/ total 0 srw------- 1 bb bb 0 2007-08-29 11:41 bash -rw-r--r-- 1 bb bb 0 2007-08-29 11:41 bash.cron -rw-r--r-- 1 bb bb 0 2007-08-29 11:41 irssi.cron ~$ This suggests irssi quits without an error message when executed in this way. It requires some further investigation as to the behaviour of irssi and whether or not this is induced by dtach. Cheers, -bernie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
