On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I have had issues with programs (notably X under FreeBSD) failing to
> start correctly at boot time from rc.local, and kludged around it with
> something like
>
> (sleep 60; fooprog &) < /dev/null &> /dev/null &
>
> so that the SIGHUP that happens when the rc process finishes and the
> console is revoked (I think) doesn't clobber the process.
>
> I'm not sure what the right answer is.  Arguably daemons should
> daemon(3)ize, and then I think this won't happen.

How about nohup(1)?

	Johnny

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