Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 21:06:00 GMT From: Dark Realms <quint@xiii.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: A background process question Message-ID: <199505202106.VAA02058@matrix.xiii.com>
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Hi..
I'm trying to run a MUD on FreeBSD 2.0 ...
I have a problem with running a background process in a
shell script or by using system() in a little autoprogram,
so the MUD can reboot after a crash or reboot..
the two ways are :
bin/drserver 6666 >& syslog
or :
system("bin/drserver 6666 >& syslog");
Both gives the error : Syntax error: Bad fd number.
Then I tryed using freopen() inside the MUD to direct stderr and
stdout to the syslog file. Problem here that all output to the file
was first written when I closed the two streams again [with fclose()]
.. And since 1) we like to look in the syslog file sometimes and
2) the MUD can run so long that I would expect it would take up to much
memory/stack or whatever it use before written to file...
So my question is if its possible somehow to make a >& in a shell
script or through system() ??
Thanks for listen..
Erik Niese-Petersen.
Email: quint@matrix.xiii.com
Dark Realms IMP.
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