Summary: How to create a startup script

From: Edward Nowlan <Edward.S.Nowlan_at_williams.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:26:25 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks to all that made suggestions:

Keith Strange <kstran_at_acxiom.com>
Bob Sloane <SLOANE_at_KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>
Lars Bro <lbr_at_dksin.dk>
Oisin McGuinness <oisin_at_sbcm.com>
Mike D Cross <crossmd_at_mh.uk.sbphrd.com>


The suggestion that seem to work for me was using NOHUP, or I could have use a
signal handler in the perl Script to ignore the HUP.

The problem occurs because the init process is the parent of all these startup
scripts and when the parent process dies, it sends HUP's to all the children
and since my startup script did not account for this it terminated.

Thanks again.



                                -- Edward S. Nowlan
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                                   Williams College
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Received on Thu Sep 17 1998 - 00:27:28 NZST