Re: Startup works from shell but not from /etc/rc.d/qmail

[Chris, the Young One]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:37:44PM -0700, Ellen Spertus wrote:
! Ah, of course.  That worked.  Thank you.  The only downside is that I get 
! the wrong pid, but I can live with that (unless someone wants to volunteer 
! a more elegant solution).

What kind of pid is considered ``wrong''? I thought all programs that
backgrounded themselves, did so by forking a child and exiting the
parent.

        ---Chris K.
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