Re: Another Qmail/OpenBSD Question

[Jim Breton <jamesb-openbsd@alongtheway.com>]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:13:58PM -0500, Kit Halsted wrote:
> If
> 
> csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
> 
> is valid for rc.local, why does everything else in the file look like
> 
> if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/somedaemon ]; then
>         echo -n ' somedaemon';       /usr/local/sbin/somedaemon
> fi


You can invoke it under any shell you want, really.  You don't have to
use csh if you don't want to.  I use sh for mine, for instance.

sh /var/qmail/rc &
or simply
/var/qmail/rc &

>From what I have heard, DJB uses csh in his example because some
implementations of the Bourne shell will cause their children to exit if
they receive a HUP signal... or, something like that.  (I could be
completely wrong... it's just something I read on another list.)

I don't see this as being a problem with our pdksh though.  Nor with
bash.