/etc/rc.2 and background processes

[Stephen Hocking]

In article <890 at creare.UUCP>, gda at creare.UUCP (Gray Abbott) writes:
> 
	[Much description about particular tasks deleted]


> Anyway, I'd like to know what's going on, and also how to make it do
> what I want.  Why does the background process die?  How can I prevent
> this?
> 
> 
> 					..dartvax!creare!gda

	Try using trap to catch sundry signals. It saves a lot of tears.
When I was wanting to do some thing similar, I had to protect it against
parent death style signals, forget the exact details now.


	Stephen


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