Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 12:13:53 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Luke Mitchell <luke@neither.apana.org.au> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What are the steps to start a binary at startup? Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.1000729120630.1764B-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <216F15234CD5D311BBFA00484500A27701D291@FENCHURCH>
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On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Luke Mitchell wrote:
> The startup script is simply;
> #!/bin/sh
> [ -x /usr/sbin/bpalogin ] && /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf &&
> echo -n ' bpalogin'
>
> I've even tried running it in the foreground during startup to see if it
> would exit, but it doesn't. Also tried running it with between "nohup" and
> "&" with its 'remain in foreground' switch set.
does bpalogin have any logging/debug capability? if it is using syslog,
you might go looking for messages in one of the log files in /var/log.
URL to the source? (of bpalogin)
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