you may want to run it under nohup or screen... otherwise, stdout is going to get a lot of junk, and that means that your active tty gets it if there's no internal redirection.
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If I wish to run a binary (say, AIRC) as a daemon , what should I do ? >My thoughts are something like: > maybe add into /etc/rc.d , a file with an entry like > if [-x /path/AIRC] > ./path/AIRC #Execute this > >Please offer your views on this . I know I have not thought enough over my own >idea. > >Thanks, >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Shyam > >"Quality can Never be Quantified . It exists by itself and Quantity might hand >it an >untimely demise if blown out of the very fragile proportions that constitute >it ." > > > -- EMACS == Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!