> 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)




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