> 1) How do you fork this thing so that, for example, you can do a backup?
Just like always from a shell script: ticker & > 2) Using the shell will creat a job (typically "sh /usr/sbin/ticker") that > will not be recognized by the "killall ticker" command. Actually, it does work (try it and see), but if you want to be paranoid, and not trust killall, a simple: ticker & PID=$! ...more stuff here... kill $PID Will work as well... Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel