Re: [SLUG] Simple Newbie Questions

[Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>]

Matt wrote:
> 
> Hello .. just a few things i've been thinking about:
> 
> Say I would like to make a script to run "dhclient eth0" for Optushome
> (since i'm too scared to do that rc.d stuff - i froze things up last time :)

Put it into rc.local at the end (if that is what you have), but most
probably, you called your script as;

     script     and everything waits for it to end, rather than
     script &   which forks(?) a process and continues (jargon check?)
with other stuff.


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