From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 15: 3: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC5537B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:02:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eASN2rF21538; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:02:54 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:02:53 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Benjamin Close Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to put 'top' in the init scripts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Benjamin Close wrote: > Next I tried a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which looks like: > #!/bin/sh > /usr/bin/top < /dev/ttyvb > /dev/ttyvb & > echo -n " top" > > Whilst " top" is echoed, the top process seems to be killed by the time I > get to log in. Is a getty running on ttyvb? Try disabling it in /etc/ttys. > > Cheers, > Benjamin > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message