RE: [expert] Init Scripts

[Ian Douglas]

> I believe it needs a console to attach itself to.

QNX (another POSIX-compliant operating system) has a utility called "on"
which we used when I worked there on their tech support staff...

ie:   on tty1 "cmd param1 param2 etc ..."

Worked like a charm.  However, I have no idea if there is anything like that
under Linux.

-id