tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote / napísal(a): > I have a shell script, /usr/bin/joevpn, which does a quick VPN > connect. Basically (HOST and DOFIL are defined above and are correct. > I just did not list them here) > > case "$1" in > > start) > date > $DOFIL > while [ -f $DOFIL ] > do > echo y | /usr/local/bin/vpnclient connect $HOST > sleep 10 > done > ;; > # Reconnects in case of disconnect (in while loop) > This works. And in /etc/init.d I have a runjoevpn (which linked to > /etc/rc5.d/S99runjoevpn). It works like the others. Below, $1 is checked > (not shown here for brevity) and if it is "start" then start below is > called: > > start() { > date >> /root/joe.log > /usr/bin/joevpn start & > RES=$? > return $RES > } > > This all works and everything. I am just curious as to why when I do > a ps I get this: > /bin/bash /etc/rc5.d/S99runjoevpn > > Shouldn't that init script terminate since I have an "&" when I do the > start() function above? No other rc5 stuff (i.e. tomcat for instance) > shows up in the ps, though tomcat is running, it started up and returned. > Is this OK or am I missing something? > > Because you start it each 10 seconds and because of while construction the start script NEVER end