Script doesn't keep running from other script

Alan Dayley adayley at gmail.com
Tue May 13 19:46:03 PDT 2008


Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> I should use the command line:
>>
>> setsid /bin/sh /mnt/FlashMemory/usbmountd >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &
>>
>> Correct?  Does it need some punctuation?
> 
> Correct. You also need to check that you have "setsid" program
> installed (bbox has one too) and it is in the path.
> 
> For debugging, redirect output to a file. You can use >/dev/null
> later, when you confirm it works as expected.

Thanks very much.  This was the correct solution!

I recompiled Busybox to enable setsid and after that it was smooth as 
can be.

Alan



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