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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users A Program Which Generates a Script Which Kills It Post 302525094 by DGPickett on Wednesday 25th of May 2011 04:41:09 PM
Old 05-25-2011
Don't spawn a shell that kills you, just write(), close(), chmod() and execvp() the shell script, giving it the parent process to run the shell. Make sure the script starts with an accurate #! line per man execvp.

When the shell script gets to running the equivalent executable, it should 'exec' the new executable and so stop running, starting the new executable in that same process.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

webminsetup

webminsetup(1m) 														   webminsetup(1m)

NAME

       webminsetup - Script to perform initial or update configuration changes to the Webmin server

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sfw/bin/webminsetup [-d]

DESCRIPTION

       webmin(1m) is a web-based tool that provides a set of CGI files, PERL files, and a specialized httpd server for administerin various system
       facilities and applications on the machine where the Webmin server is running.

	webminsetup(1m) is used to perform the initial configuration, or to update an existing configuration in the case of an	system	or  Webmin
       upgrade.

       Without	options,  webminsetup(1m)  will prompt the user to provide responses for various configuration options.  The script will display a
       default answer for each of the questions, and hitting the return key will select those options.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available for use with webminsetup(1m);

       -d     Run the script using all of the defaults, and not prompt the user for selections.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWwebminr,    |
       |		    | SUNWwebminu     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Evolving	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
SEE ALSO

       webmin(1m), attributes(5)

NOTES

       In addition to the documentation and man pages included with Solaris,	 more	  information	  is	 available    at

       http://www.webmin.com

								    30 Oct 2004 						   webminsetup(1m)
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