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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 19:39:31 -0400
To: Luciano <lucianoav AT gmx DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: Exim at startup
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At 10:49 PM 4/18/2003 +0000, Luciano wrote:
>When I call Exim -bd from the bash console, with or without rxvt, it 
>works fine: it disconnects from the terminal and stays there, 
>listening to incoming mail.
>
>But if I call it from pure DOS, command line, Run or other methods, 
>like Tcl exec or PHP `exim`, Exim is launched and keeps this useless 
>DOS console hanging about. Does anyone know how I can get rid of it?

Try sh -c "exim -bd"

Pierre


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