Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:30:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Mills <johnmills@speakeasy.net> To: sergey dyshel <sdieselil@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there a command for Unix which can detach processfromconsole and wait until its finish? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304050824580.8945-100000@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3E8EC9CB.30601@potentialtech.com>
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Sergey, Freebies -
> sergey dyshel wrote:
> > I have one problem with '.xinitrc' file. I need to run
> > IceWM, detach it from console and wait until IceWM
> > exits. I know about 'detach' utility for Unix which
> > runs process, detaches it but doesn't wait. So when I
> > place "exec detach icewm" in the end of my '.xinitrc'
> > X server shuts down immediately after starting icewm
> > which isn't what I want. Is there a programm like
> > 'detach' which does't exit until detached process is finished?
Excuse me if I missed the point, but here is the tail end of a typical
'xinitrc' from my Linux box. You can see that it starts a number of
clients, then 'exec's the window manager. Is that what you had in mind?
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
exec $HOME/.Xclients
elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
# failsafe settings. Although we should never get here
# (we provide fallbacks in Xclients as well) it can't hurt.
xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &
if [ -x /usr/bin/netscape -a -f /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ];
then
netscape /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
fi
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 ]; then
exec fvwm2
else
exec twm
fi
fi
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
John Mills
john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu
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