On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Frank Elsner wrote:
> The forwarded X11 connection is dropped before the "eximon.bin" is using it,
> because "eximon" contains the statement
> exec ${EXIMON_BINARY} $* &
>
> Removing the "&" solves the problem.
>
> BTW, Why "exec" and "&", what does this mean ?
The comment in the eximon script says
# Exec to the program we really want to run, thereby continuing in
# just the one process, and let it run in parallel with whatever
# called this script.
Without the & the eximon script does not return control until the
monitor is terminated. You then need to run
eximon &
every time. When I implemented it, I got tired of having to remember to
do this, which is why the & is there.
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