Asri-unix.385 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!gwyn@UTEXAS-11 Wed Dec 30 23:35:22 1981 more on /etc/rc and /dev/console Is this bit about process groups accurate? If /etc/rc contains the line foo >/dev/console I thought that a fork & exec was used to run foo; the fork would make a process that had /dev/console for control tty, but upon exit I wouldn't expect the shell that is processing /etc/rc to have magically entered foo's no-longer-relevant process group. Am I missing something here? (Clearly Bellovin is correct in observing that the shell should not open /dev/console globally for the entire /etc/rc file, unless nohup or equivalent happened to be used to run cron and other daemons.) ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.