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ALLLLRIGHT..........

I got bold and commented out these lines in the daemon script:

##defined (my $pid = fork) or die "Can't fork: $!";
##exit if $pid;
##setsid ...

Yes all that is well and good and I agree. I was the one who proposed cron in the first place. But this company wants something that runs 'continuously'.
I won a compromise by creating a daemon...

I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that the dprdaemon program runs in the background (using 'fork').

I have found this page:

FGA: Mistakes to avoid when designing Unix dmon...

shockneck:


SRCsubsys:
subsysname = "dprdaemon"
synonym = ""
cmdargs = ""
path = "/dplogs/dpr/dpr_daemon"
uid = 0
auditid = 0
...

Okay I created the dprdaemon subsystem with this command:

mkssys -p /dplogs/dpr_daemon -s dprdaemon -u 0 -a "-D" -e /dev/null -i /dev/null -o /dev/null -R -S -Q -f 9 -n 15

I specifically put in...

Does anyone else agree with my mkssys solution?

:confused:

Pederabo
Just clarifying-

So you are agreeing with Shockneck and saying that using the SRC would handle this problem better than an /etc/inittab entry, which is what I did at first?

You agree...

I would have to assume then that the command for doing this (in my instance) would be:

mkssys -p /dplogs/dpr_daemon -s dprdaemon -u 0 -a "-D" -e /dev/null -i /dev/null -o /dev/null -R -S -f 9 -n...

Someone mentioned that perhaps since this program runs in the background, that inittab thinks the program has ended and keeps respawning again and again.

But I don't know how to write a daemon...

Hi All,

May be a dumb question to old AIX hacks, if so apologize.
I have worked with /etc/inittab on SCO, but apparently with AIX you should use the 'mkitab' command to add entries instead of...