Thanks, to all.
I ended up going for the /etc/inittab as it works well enough and they can't
break into the shell coz' there ain't none. (Grin)...
If the server crashed it respawned it.. God knows what happens when there's
a critical error and it respawns all the time but then again it's Linux and
it going to be fine (sitting here fingers crossed)..
-----Original Message-----
From: chesty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 5:17 PM
To: George Vieira; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Starting up program which require
a tty in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:30:08AM +1000, George Vieira
wrote:
> I want to start some game servers from /etc/rc.d/rc.local
but I read some
> where that they require a tty/terminal to work in.
> Is there any problem free way to do this or is it as easy
as running the
> command with a >/dev/tty1 or something?
>
> Suggestions?
Just a suggestion, try screen.
Maybe "screen -m -d /usr/local/games/gameprogram"
-m -d Start screen in "detached" mode. This creates a
new session but doesn't attach to it. This is use�
ful for system startup scripts.
-m -D This also starts screen in "detached" mode, but
doesn't fork a new process. The command exits if
the session terminates.
--
chesty
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