What versions of NetView and AIX and maintenance level are you talking about?

The script is backgrounding the command, that is, using the &, but the shell is passing the & to X11vfb, rather than handling it. That's the problem, but I'm not sure of what the cure is... that is, what behavior the author of the script had in mind.

There is an open APAR against the same behavior during installation.

You could change the startXvfb to use nohup and use 2>&1 > /dev/null ahead of the ampersand...
That is, try this:
nohup /usr/bin/X11/X -vfb -n :2 2>&1 > /dev/null &

The problem can still be coming from the fact that a script or program is calling a script.

Tell me if that changes anything.




Regards,
Geo.

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Allie M Hopkins <allie AT lsu DOT edu> Sent by: owner-nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com 12/15/2003 03:11 PM Please respond to nv-l

To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com cc: brian.green AT cgi DOT com Subject: [nv-l] X11 vfb problem

I am having this same exact problem. I haven't rebooting the server in
almost a year and after doing some maintenance I rebooted. Now I can't get
vfb started. All I get is the usage statement.

There was no response to this message, but I'm hoping Brian is still around
to give me some pointers.

Allie

Allie M Hopkins
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Subject: [nv-l] X11 vfb problem


From: "Brian Green" <brian.green AT cgi DOT com>

To: "Netview Mailing List" <
nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com>

Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:25:19 -0400




I am having a weird one with my Netview server. I am trying to start the
X11 vfb for the web console daemon netviewd - but when I run startXvfb it
gives me a usage statement and does not start. It was working for months
until we rebooted the server this morning.

I have tried re-installing the X11.vfb package, but it still fails.

Has anyone seen this behaviour before?

Thanks,

Brian

Brian W. Green, TCC
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