On 06.11.2004 17:38 +0100, Rolf Sommerhalder wrote:

> Ran into difficulties there, even though I though to have properly 
> escaped the trailing "&" to send choparp to the background:
> 
>          <system>
>                  <hostname>m0n0wall</hostname>
> ...
>                  <dnsserver>10.0.0.1</dnsserver>
>                  <shellcmd>/usr/local/sbin/choparp fxp0 auto 
> 10.0.0.128/30 &amp;</shellcmd>
>          </system>
>          <interfaces>

Try

/usr/local/sbin/choparp fxp0 auto 10.0.0.128/30 </dev/null >/dev/null
2>&1 &

(all on one line, with the proper XML escaping of course)

HTH,

Manuel