On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Peter Rehley wrote:

>
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 03:22 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > > On 02/29/2008, Dang, Robin wrote:
> > > > I managed to get the posted solution partially working and it is
> > > > exactly what I was looking for. I only cannot get the shell script
> > > > to run as a service. The service will attempt to start then fail,
> > > > but it is really running. Does "exec" fork a process?
> > >
> > > Yes, it does.  Maybe you want "--neverexits"?
> >
> >  Damn.  I went and typo'd it trying that out and accidentally ran "exec
> > --neverexist".  Now my network drive has disappeared and
> > there's this fairly ominous-looking swirly glowing void where the server
> > room used to be .... and it's getting bigger ... it's
> > coming closer ....
> >
> >               HALP!!!1!
> >
> >    cheers,
> >      Dav@~£%}"'£_%{£^"#*@^}&### NO CARRIER
>
> I call dibs on his computer.

You mean the one that used to be where the swirly void is?
	Igor
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