[Orca-users] Re: percol dies without any notice

[Paul Haldane]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 jstuckey at privada.com wrote:

> I recently had this problem as well. It turned out (on my systems) to
> be an environment issue that I do not completely understand. I have a
> stack of Netras running SunOs 5.7 and installed Orca-0.26 beta1. We
> use ssh and allow direct root logins to the boxes. I would ssh into a
> box (as root) and start '../se.sparcv9.5.7  ../orcallator.se' using
> the start script in /etc/rc3.d. As soon as I logged out of this box
> the process would die. I confirmed this several times by logging in on
> another terminal and running a truss -v on the orcallator pid. As soon
> as I logged out of the root shell that invoked orcallator.se,
> orcallator would die at the exact same time.

This sounds like standard Bourne shell behaviour - background commands
started without nohup die when the shell exits.  Using nohup or starting
orcallator at boot time should work (or use

  exec csh

before starting orcallator by hand.

Paul

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Paul Haldane
Computing Service
University of Newcastle


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