grub.conf

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Luciano Rocha wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the clarification.

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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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