Thanks to all who replied with a variety of helpful suggestions - unfortunately,
none of them solved the problem.
I am calling dxsysinfo from an rc3 script - the process died after a second or
two. No combination of nohup, & or shell wrapping had any effect. In
desperation, I re-read the man page and noticed a reference to $HOME. The clouds
began to lift!
I guess that HOME is unset when the init scripts are run, this causes dxsysinfo
to core dump. Setting it to "/" in the script before making the call solved the
problem.
I suspect that this may also be a solution to other similar problems.
Bernie Jones
bernie.jones_at_gb.unisys.com
Received on Fri Feb 26 1999 - 11:10:32 NZDT