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Re: Exim at startup


At 03:21 AM 4/19/2003 +0000, Luciano wrote:

>>>But if I call it from pure DOS, command line, Run or other
>>>methods, like Tcl exec or PHP `exim`, Exim is launched and keeps
>>>this useless DOS console hanging about. Does anyone know how I
>>>can get rid of it? 
>> 
>> Try sh -c "exim -bd"
>
>Yes, it works. You rule!
>Do you know why it works with sh and not with bash?

Try bash -c "exim -bd; true" 

Hints: + exim doesn't go in the background if its pid is 1
       + bash optimizes to avoid vforks

Pierre





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