On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:50 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 02:34, Craig White wrote: > > Trying to use relaydelay.pl from projects.puremagic.com (greylisting > > milter for sendmail) > > > > End result is a perl file... and I want to invoke it as a daemon - > > detached from any terminal. > > > > it appears that most of the sysv scripts use /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions > > to get a more sophisticated box of tools... > > > > my problem is that my sysv script (called relay) hangs at the point > > where it wants to initlog -q -c /usr/local/sbin/relaydelay.pl and > > this obviously comes from the code in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions. If I > > kill the neverending process...everything is fine and the program is > > launched BUT - it never detaches from the terminal. i.e. > > If you are unable to get this problem resolved you may want to check out > milter-greylist. That was easy to install and has worked very well > providing greylisting capabilities for sendmail. > > You may also want to look at its code to see how they get things setup, > could help resolve your problem with the package you are using. ---- no it's setup - it's working. I'm just trying to figure out a way to get it launched as a daemon - i.e. so that it doesn't list pts/3 or whatever terminal so I can log out after starting or restarting. How are you starting the program? Craig
