Re: [LUG] running commands as daemons or detached processes

[jody salt <jody_leigh_salt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I take it nohup blocks the signals and "&" detaches the terminal?

 

anyway it works!

 

Cheers

 

Jody

(P.S. just installed qmail and removed sendmail sucessfully!!)

John Daragon <john@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jody salt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a simple way to start a process as a daemon?? or make a process
> detach from my terminal, so it runs as a background process??
>
> Basically I want to run:
>
> "svscan /service"
> as a background process.
>
> I've added "svscan /service" to my inittab - however I would like to
> boot this process without restarting my server.
>
> I imagine this should be pretty simple linux thing to do!

Indeed it would.

$ nohup &

jd

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