Why does my shell script require "crcr" ???

[mozkill]

On my server, I am trying to start a java process with a shell script. My initialization script sends the following command:

#!/bin/bash
. /etc/rc.status
rc_reset
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting Java Server "
cd /home/JavaServer
./startserver.sh < crcr > console.log 2>&1 &
disown -a
rc_status -v
;;
.....
esac


MY question is "WHY do I need the '<crcr' redirect for it to work? The script wont work without that item and I can't figure out why. I really want to understand what this means. Why would you want to feed back to a script a file called "crcr" that has 2 carrage returns in it and why won't the java process start without this??

so confused, thanks for any help you can give....

[dwhitney67]

What are the contents of the startserver.sh script file? Maybe if you peruse that file, you will find your answer.

[mozkill]

There is nothing obvious. Here is a sample of what is in the file (obfuscated of course). The startup works fine on a windows machine with the same classes and same JDK version, without the need for the "crcr" thing...

# Start the Server
#
cd $SERVER_HOME
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java \
$JAVAOPTS \
-classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
com.company.server.Site $1 $2 $3