easy way to create a daemon

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Jon M. Hanson <jon at the-hansons-az.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:59:59PM -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  >   Is there an easy way to create a daemon without creating an init.d
>  > script, etc.?  My needs are pretty modest, the process just needs to
>  > persist after logout.  I can kill it manually when need be.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  >
>  >   jmz
>  >
>
>  Try running you program with nohup. It will persist even after the shell
>  you started it in exits (like when you logout).

  that appears to work.  thank you, Jon!

 -jmz




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