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I have a C program on centos. When I call system("some_program &"); how do I get the PID of the some_program? I cant just list processes as there might be more than one some_program active. I need to know the one that I just started. Thanks, Jerry

...s of logtail next time you change something. That notwithstanding, since logtail prints its error messages to standard output, the error message about the incorrect argument format is lost. One would expect the normal usage of logtail would have been something like: logtail logfile offsetfile | some_program With the new version of logtail, this produces an error message to standard output, which is then sent to 'some_program'. I would claim that the correct behaviour is to send the message to standard error, so logtail is not silently broken by installing logtail from sarge. =) Peter

...th OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 installed and this server acting as an LTSP. Some PCs (all Pentium+ classes) acting as X-Terminals connects to this server via PXE boot --> DHCP --> booting LTSP-kernel (2.4.24) --> executing XFree86 4.3.99 --> and finally executing "ssh -X user at linuxserver some_program" (same version OpenSSH as server) in order to execute the OpenOffice binary and nothing more. Thanks to the X-Forwarding feature, all the OpenOffice executes in a very capable Linux server for all PCs acting as a X-Terminals and the things works fine in an environment very stable and secu...