Re: Startup works from shell but not from /etc/rc.d/qmail

[Ellen Spertus]

At 02:17 PM 8/8/2000 +1200, you wrote:
>What kind of pid is considered ``wrong''? I thought all programs that
>backgrounded themselves, did so by forking a child and exiting the
>parent.

Wrong for the purposes of the /etc/rc.d/init.d scripts; i.e., for the 
"status", "stop", and "restart" commands.

Ellen Spertus