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From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
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To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Subject: Re: init runs with console as control terminal?
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>     no control terminal == no signals == no ^C'ing hung programs during 
>     startup (for example, when you need to boot a machine without a working
>     network and sendmail and other programs stop the boot sequence in its
>     tracks trying to do DNS lookups).
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>
> 
Hmm, good point. So I still need to find a way to start up rc5des, it seems
that rc5des installs a SIGHUP handler and therefore nohup is useless. I wish
there were a noctty...

-lq


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