Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello! I am currently attempting to build a very, very, basic program that attempts to act like a calendar for a "server." Using this program I need to have the client program connect to the server program, have the client wait for the server to respond through a socket, then exit and the server continues its operation.

I could post code/files, however I feel as if this is a simple mistake that I am overlooking because I am too close to the project. My question is: why is the "server" program exiting prematurely and not looping indefinitely (which I assure you it is coded to do). In addition, the "server" program is ordered to run in the background (compiled with the syntax "./server.out 2300 &" with 2300 being the socket number)

An example of the error messages I am receiving are:

[1]+ Exit 1 ./server.out 2300
(this one occurs 90% of the time)

and the others are variations of this one... just instead of [1] it may be [2] or [3] and rarely the '+' becomes a '-' (minus).

HELP!

Thanks

I this may be the problem with the NONBLOCK mode in your code.So your server program comes out when no client are immediately available.Change it to BLOCK mode.
If it is not a problem post your code .

Thanks karthigayan, attached is the entire file that is my "server."

As a note, some trouble shooting with a script for multiple events shows that the coding for:

Code:

strcat(returnBuf, "Write successful!\n") ;
if( write(ssock, returnBuf, sizeof(returnBuf) ) < 0) ;
{
  errexit("mycald write: %s\n", strerror(errno) ) ;
}
return 0 ;

Is somehow at fault (yes... this little section is repeated MANY times as it is the only way to communicated from server->client.) The script shows that "Write successful!" prints out, however then the phrase "mycald write: Success" prints and then the server program is terminated. As you can see... that corresponds to the error message, however that shouldn't be an error! (especially since it even says Success in it)