On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:48:51PM +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > Luciano Rocha wrote: > > Is the program graphical? If not, then a line with: > > su - -s /bin/sh user -c "program" < /dev/null &> /var/log/program.log & > > in /etc/rc.local will take care of it. > > What is the role played by /dev/null here? I tried the command with > /dev/null and without. The behavior was the same. Sets /dev/null as the standard input of the program. So, if it tries to read from stantard input, it gets EOF. Otherwise, it would block in /dev/console and could confuse any other program reading from the active terminal. -- lfr 0/0
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