grub.conf
Luciano Rocha
strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Wed Jul 11 16:54:54 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:48:51PM +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Luciano Rocha wrote:
> > Is the program graphical? If not, then a line with:
> > su - -s /bin/sh user -c "program" < /dev/null &> /var/log/program.log &
> > in /etc/rc.local will take care of it.
>
> What is the role played by /dev/null here? I tried the command with
> /dev/null and without. The behavior was the same.
Sets /dev/null as the standard input of the program. So, if it tries to
read from stantard input, it gets EOF. Otherwise, it would block in
/dev/console and could confuse any other program reading from the active
terminal.
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lfr
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