Ray, thanks for your response. Honestly I am going to try that next, since
I can't seem to make this work any way I try it. Just tried sending it to a
new screen session and that doesn't work either.

I want to say though that we initially tried running this from rc.local and
there was some problem with it... I will let you know what I find out.
Thanks!


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Ray DeJean <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does Kali have an rc.local?  In cases like this I tend to quickly dismiss
> the new style Linux init systems and just do what has worked in unix for 40
> years.  Stick it in rc.local, nohup, full path, redirect output, and run in
> background.
>
> nohup /path/to/script.sh > /var/log/script.log 2>&1 &
>
> Maybe not what you want though...  :)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 19, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Jarred White <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So I've got a small script that runs at boot and establishes a reverse
> SSH tunnel.
> >
> > In BackTrack 5r3 it worked fine by adding it via update-rc.d and letting
> it run. System would boot, script would run, tunnel would remain alive.
> >
> > In Kali Linux (Deb6), I can't figure out how to make it NOT kill getty
> at boot. It's in the right run level (2), and it depends on ssh, so in lsb
> style I tell it to depend on ssh. Everything works fine, and then it gets
> to the part where it runs my script in dmesg, and it hangs.
> >
> > Now, my script is actually running - the tunnel works. The problem is
> that because output from the script appears in dmesg, it seems to be
> preventing the remainder of the boot process. getty never creates the local
> console sessions and I can't login (I can log in through SSH no problem).
> Additionally, if I log in via SSH and kill the script, the remainder of the
> boot process finishes without a problem.
> >
> > I have done some research this morning on making my script lsb compliant
> and "daemonizing" it to some degree, but I still don't understand why the
> hell: A) The script is outputting its content to the console, and B) Why
> that is preventing getty from starting.
> >
> > I can't tell if this is an issue with the script itself, or an issue
> with the init script that calls it.
> >
> > Any thoughts or ideas? Things I can try? Any feedback is much
> appreciated.
> >
> >
> > -Jarred
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