Tuesday, August 14, 2001, 3:47:19 PM, Michael T. Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anybody knows a way to write a helper script to detach >> misbehaving daemons from tty on startup? > I doubt its the 'right way', but I often use " < /dev/null > /dev/null" > to redirect standard input and output ... it may also mean the > process is no longer considered attached to /dev/tty1 ... Even syslogd </dev/null >/dev/null 2>/dev/null in init script does not help. My syslogd still dies when I press SAK on VC #1. syslogd is taken as an example only. I have same trouble with mysqld. -- Best regards, VDA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php