Background process

[Vivek Khera]

On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

> Failing that, if you need to preserve anything that is emitted from  
> the program, nohup is probably your best bet. If it isn't going to  
> spit anything out on the terminal, take a look at daemon(8), which  
> you probably will want to run with the -f option.

I can't remember needing nohup to run *anything* since the ancient  
days of the old old old /bin/sh which would kill all of your  
processes upon logout.  Modern shells do not do this.  Just redirect  
the stdin/stdout/stderr appropriately and run in bg.

The more appropriate tool, assuming the original program has no "run  
as daemon" flag is the daemon(8) program as mentioned above.