On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:52 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:03, Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:50 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > I wrote a startup script that I put in the standard init.d directory and > used chkconfig to treat it as a service. It starts milter-greylist up > when the system boots and you can use the standard tools to manage it. > > It treats it as a service on the system. > > I started with one of the other scripts in init.d as an example and > modified for milter-greylist. ---- that's exactly what I'm trying to do - when I launch it as it is now (from within /etc/rc.d/init.d/relay) and I chkconfig and service start stuff...it still is controlled by a terminal #ps aux|grep relaydelay root 28682 0.0 1.2 38960 6404 pts/3 S 07:50 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /root/relaydelay-0.04/relaydelay.pl note -> pts/3 If I close that terminal, program stops. I would love to see what you get from ps aux command... If your launch is detached from a terminal (i.e. a ? instead of pts/3 or some other) then I would love to see your sysV script. I know that at the beginning of the thread, I included mine. Craig
