Hello all!

I seem to be having some problems with getting a script to run a command and send it to background at system boot.

I have a Debian system(without X) and a simple script(added via rc.d-update with default settings) that executes a command(starts a program that has to keep running), but after the script executes the command, it locks the terminal and it does not proceed to login prompt.

The goal is to have the program start in background. So when it starts at boot, it's sent to background and login prompt is shown.

I've tried adding ampersand at the end of the command in the script, but that just does nothing.

I will be very, very thankful about any help I can get.
Cheers!

Hi
The first question is probably if it's your program or if it's your rc-script causing the problem.
Try therefore to comment out in your rc-script the line that starts your program and see if your system boots normally.

If it does not then review the rc-script itself.
If it does... well, if you put the ampersand at the end it's supposed to push it to the background - would be weird if that does not work => in this case you would probably have to post your script here.
Cheers

Hey, thanks for the reply!

It's not the rc-script itself.
The program in question is SoX, the script launches a SoX recording session. If I set recording time to, say, one minute, after the minute has passed, SoX closes itself and login prompt is displayed. In other words, until SoX finishes, it does not proceed to login prompt. Adding & to the end of the line that starts SoX in the script doesn't do anything... unless I'm missing something.

Basically, what I have in the script is this: rec [options] outputfilename [some more options] [recording time] &

Oh, ok - sox is probably a quite "central" program - it might be that it does not allow more than 1 copy to run concurrently.
Have to surrender - sorry.