[Xorp-users] Problem starting xorp_rtrmgr in 1.2 RC

[Mike Horn]

You can use output redirection and & (background) to run rtrmgr in the background, here's an example:

[root@fedora rtrmgr]# ./xorp_rtrmgr > /var/log/messages 2>&1 &
[1] 6712
[root@fedora rtrmgr]# ./xorpsh
Welcome to XORP on fedora
root@fedora>

This redirects all STDOUT and STDERR to /var/log/messages.  I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but it gets the job done ;-)

-mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Atanu Ghosh <atanu@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Dave Price <dave.price@aber.ac.uk>
Cc: Kristian Larsson <kristian@juniks.net>, I FernandezDiaz <I.FernandezDiaz@telecom.tno.nl>, xorp-users@xorp.org, dap@aber.ac.uk
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2006 9:39:58 AM GMT-0700
Subject: Re: [Xorp-users] Problem starting xorp_rtrmgr in 1.2 RC 

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Price <dave.price@aber.ac.uk> writes:

    Dave> Is there any real reason why rtrmgr does not (have an option
    Dave> at least to) disconnect from open file descriptors and run as
    Dave> a background daemon as most programs of this nature would??

I think that you are right the rtrmgr should have an option to run as a
background daemon.

Before we make such a change we would need to decide what to do with the
output from the XORP processes, discard, send to syslog, put in a
logfile in /var/log. In the code all output is generated with macros
that would map directly to syslog priorities, we have just never tied
XORP to syslog.

	Atanu.
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