Try shellcommand < /dev/null > /dev/null
M Quoting David Douthitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Manon Goo wrote: > > I have tried to restart BigBrother from cfengine (2.1.13 ) the > > BigBrother restart script starts some other processes in background > > but these to not close the STDIN and STDERR. Now cfengine habs > > infinite unless I redirect the output of The restart script. > > I don't know if there is a way around it, but I believe that is expected > behavior, though incorrect behavior. The programs should close STDIN > and STDERR, but if they do not then things hang. > > I ran into this trying to get some programs to run during system startup > in initialization scripts. > > The real question is: can cfengine work around this? I believe you can > use a shell script to "hold" the process which doesn't close STDIN and > STDERR properly. > > -- > David Douthitt > UNIX System Administrator > Linux+, LPIC-1, RHCE > HP-UX, Unixware, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD > Member: ACM, USENIX/SAGE > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Work: +47 22453272 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax : +47 22453205 WWW : http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
