From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 6:23:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c003.sfo.cp.net (c003-h002.c003.sfo.cp.net [209.228.14.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28849158ED for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from polarbear@asiamail.com) Received: (cpmta 3022 invoked from network); 30 Nov 1999 06:22:24 -0800 Date: 30 Nov 1999 06:22:24 -0800 Message-ID: <19991130142224.3021.cpmta@c003.sfo.cp.net> X-Sent: 30 Nov 1999 14:22:24 GMT Received: from [203.124.1.50] by mail.asiamail.com with HTTP; 30 Nov 1999 06:22:24 PST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unicode-1-1-utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: polarbear@asiamail.com X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.0 Subject: Starting Qmail As Background Process Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have the following in my /etc/rc.local file, /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mydomain.com \ /usr/local/bin/checkvpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir & /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -u 1006 -g 1006 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 & It seems that one of the above process or rather maybe both does not execute as a background processes upon loading at bootup. Instead they stay on the console, thus preventing the Login: prompt from being displayed. I will appreciate it very much if someone can enlighten me on how to modify the commands above so that they will stay as background executing processes. Please kindly CC: a copy of your reply to my e-mail address as I am not on the mailing list. Thank you. Regards. _____________________________________________________ Free email, Premium Rewards. http://www.helloasia.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message