Hi, On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:48, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote: > # /etc/init.d/script restart << this runs fine, returns my shell prompt > # exit << When I enter this command, my shell window just stays > "stuck" and actually won't close down. > > Anyone know why this happens? Yes, it's because the daemon started from that script keeps file descriptors opened to the terminal you are connected to. This might be considered a bug in the daemon, since a proper daemon should close all its file descriptors before going background and returning to the shell. You might try to change the script in init.d to append "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1" at the line that starts the daemon, this might force it to detach itself from the terminal. HTH, Filipe